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The ‘Son of God’ text, one of the Dead Sea Scroll fragments found in Qumran Cave 4, consists of two columns of nine lines each in the Aramaic language. We lack the beginnings of the lines in the first column, which has been damaged on the right (Aramaic, like Hebrew, is read from right to left). The second column ends in mid-sentence, so the document originally must have possessed at least a third column.This text, dated to the late first century B.C.E., has extraordinary parallels to the annunciation scene in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:31–35), including use of the titles “Son of God” and “Son of the Most High,” the earliest known references to these terms in a messianic context. These parallels strongly suggest a relationship between this Qumran text and the later Gospel text, if not a direct dependence, then a dependence on a common tradition.The Dead Sea Scroll Son of God text from Qumran Cave 4 has attracted attention both in scholarly publications and in the press because it contains remarkable parallels to the annunciation scene in the Gospel of Luke. The Aramaic text has been known for 20 years, since J. T. Milik presented it orally in a lecture at Harvard in December 1972. Milik, however, failed to publish it. Part of the text, based on Milik’s lecture, was published by Joseph Fitzmyer, S.J., in 1974.1Fitzmyer also set out the parallels between this text and Luke in his monumental commentary on that Gospel in 1981.2 The fact that Fitzmyer, a Jesuit priest, risked the disapproval of his colleagues by his unauthorized publication of the text is significant. It shows that any suggestion that this text has been withheld for religious reasons is utter nonsense. The text was discussed in the March/April 1990 Biblical Archaeology Review in “An Unpublished Dead Sea Scroll Text Parallels Luke’s Infancy Narrative,” sidebar to “Dead Sea Scroll Variation on ‘Show and Tell’—It’s Called ‘Tell, But No Show,’” BAR 16:02. Not until 1992, however, was it published in full, by Emile puech, who had succeeded Milik as the officially designated editor.3Puech, however, failed to resolve the most intriguing question in this document: the interpretation of the figure who is called “Son of God.” Puech allowed that two interpretations are possible: (1) The Son of God may be viewed negatively in the text, in which case he is a Syrian king; or (2) he may be viewed positively, in which case he is a Jewish messiah.I believe that Puech’s hesitation is unnecessary. The Son of God may be identified with confidence as a messianic figure.4 The text then raises some intriguing questions about the relationship between Jewish and Christian ideas of the Messiah.The text is known technically as 4Q246, which simply indicates that it is from Qumran Cave 4 and was given the arbitrary number 246 among those documents. As can be seen in the photo (above), the fragment includes two columns, but the first one (on the right) has been torn vertically, roughly in half, so that the first part of each line is missing. (Remember that Aramaic, like Hebrew, is read from right to left.) Column 2 ends with an incomplete sentence, so there was at least a third column. Each of the preserved columns contains nine lines. The complete text, in the original Aramaic and in English translation, is printed in the sidebar to this article.The text contains some remarkable parallels to a prediction about Jesus at the beginning of Luke’s Gospel. When the angel Gabriel appears to the Virgin Mary, to announce the conception of Jesus, he tells her:“And now, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his ancestor David. He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end. … [T]he child to be born will be holy; he will be called the Son of God” (Luke 1:31–35).Three phrases in this quotation from Luke’s Gospel are translation equivalents of phrases in the Dead Sea Scroll fragment: “will be great” (column 1, line 7), “he will be called Son of the Most High” (column 2, line 1) and “he will be called Son of God” (column 2, line 1).Luke also speaks of an unending reign; the Dead Sea Scroll fragment speaks of an “everlasting kingdom” (column 2, line 5).If the Gospel of Luke showed such exact parallels to an Old Testament text, all would agree that this was a case of literary dependence. It is hard to deny that there must be some relationship between this Gospel text and the long-lost text from Qumran, even if it is only dependence on a common tradition. (The manuscript is dated to the late first century B.C.E. by Puech on the basis of the writing style [paleography]. Even if we allow a generous margin of error, it is clearly older than the Gospels.)In the Gospel of Luke, the one who is called Son of God is explicitly identified as the heir to the Davidic throne: “the Lord God will give to him the throne of his ancestor David” (Luke 1:32). Puech allows that the phrase “Son of God” may have the same reference in the Qumran text, that is, that this Son of God is a descendant of David. But he also allows for another interpretation. If you look at column 2 in the photograph, you will see that there is a blank space (vacat, in scholarly jargon) in the middle of the column, before the phrase “until the people of God arises.” Several scholars have taken this break as an indication of the turning point of the text. Everything before the break, then, would pertain to the rule of the nations, and would be viewed negatively from a Jewish point of view. So Milik, in his lecture at Harvard, argued that the one who would be called “Son of God” was a Syrian king, Alexander Balas, son of the notorious Antiochus IV Epiphanes who had persecuted the Jews in the time of the Maccabees (167–164 B.C.E.). Balas is called theopator (god-begot- ten) and Deo patre natus (born of a divine father) on coins. Puech, in his publication of our Dead Sea Scroll text, also allowed as one possibility that the reference might be to a Syrian king, although he preferred the better-known Epiphanes.It was not uncommon in antiquity for pagan kings to be regarded as gods or sons of gods. In a Jewish context, however, “Son of God” is a highly honorific title. If this reference was to a Syrian king, we would expect to find some indication in this Jewish text that the title was inappropriate. If the Son of God was viewed negatively, we would expect the text to tell of his eventual downfall. In fact, however, there is no indication in the extant text that the Son of God was regarded with disapproval.5True, the blank space in the second column of the Son of God text marks the transition to the final stage of the drama, the rise of the people of God. It does not follow, however, that everything before this is negative. This text belongs to the category of apocalyptic literature, broadly defined; that is, literature that reports visions about the end of days. It is very closely related to the Book of Daniel, which is itself a classic apocalyptic text. It is typical of apocalyptic literature that it does not tell its story in simple sequential order, but often goes over the same ground again and again to make its point. For example, Daniel 7 recounts a famous vision in which “one like a son of man” comes on the clouds of heaven (verse 13) and is given a kingdom. An interpretation follows, which says that “the holy ones of the Most High” receive the kingdom (verse 18). Finally, there is an elaboration of this interpretation, according to which the kingdom is given to “the people of the holy ones of the Most High” (verse 27). The giving of the kingdom, then, is narrated three times, but these are not three separate events.The “one like a son of man” in Daniel 7 represents the “people of the holy ones,” and receives the kingdom on their behalf. The Son of God text should be read in a similar way. The figure who is called the Son of God is the representative, or agent, of the people of God. That is why he is not mentioned again after the rise of the people of God in column 2. His career and the rise of the people of God are simply two aspects of the same event.Fitzmyer made a number of important points about the interpretation of this text when he published part of it in 1974. He saw the text as apocalyptic rather than historical, which is to say that it refers to some climactic event of the future and not to the present or past. This is shown by phrases drawn from Daniel 7:14: “his kingdom is an ever-lasting kingdom,” “his dominion is [an] everlasting dominion.” Fitzmyer also saw that the figure must be “someone on the Jewish side” and suggested that he is “possibly an heir to the throne of David.”6 He adamantly refused, however, to use the word “messiah” with reference to this figure, since that word does not appear in the text.It may be well at this point to pause for a moment to comment on the word “messiah.” As is well known, the Hebrew word for messiah, mashiach, means simply “anointed.” Kings were anointed in ancient Israel, and so were some other figures, notably high priests. Originally, the word had no special reference to the future. When the Psalmist wrote in Psalm 2:2 that the kings of the earth take counsel “against the Lord and his anointed,” he was speaking of the king of the day, not of someone who was expected in the future. In later times, however, when there was no longer a Davidic king in Jerusalem and when the Jewish people looked increasingly to the future, the word “messiah” took on a new meaning. It now referred to the one who would restore the kingdom of Israel, and who was often conceived in a highly idealized way. The Dead Sea Scrolls do not restrict the word “messiah” to the one who would restore the Davidic kingship; they also speak of a priestly “messiah of Aaron” and use the word “messiahs” with reference to prophets. But they also attest the use of “messiah” with reference to the “branch of David.” Eventually the word “messiah” came to mean primarily the Davidic messiah in both Jewish and Christian traditions: Passages in the Psalms and in the Prophets that spoke of a messiah or of a Davidic king were commonly interpreted as referring to this figure who would come in the future. At the turn of the era, an heir to the Davidic throne, in an apocalyptic context, cannot be distinguished from the Davidic messiah, and we are fully justified in speaking of a messiah here, even though the word does not appear in the text.The Hebrew Bible provides a clear basis for referring to the Davidic messiah as Son of God. Psalm 2, which uses the word “messiah,” or “anointed,” with reference to the king, goes on to say “I will tell of the decree of the Lord: he said to me, ‘You are my son, today I have begotten you’” (Psalm 2:7). In Psalm 89:27, God says of the king “I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.” In 2 Samuel 7:14, the Lord promises that he will establish the kingdom of David’s offspring: “I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me.” This latter passage is cited in the document known as 4Q174, or the Florilegium, from Qumran (this document consists of biblical citations followed by explanations; the citation commented on is from 2 Samuel 7:11–14):“‘The Lord declares to you that He will build you a house. I will raise up your seed after you. I will establish the throne of his kingdom (for ever). I (will be) his father and he shall be my son.’ He is the branch of David who shall arise with the Interpreter of the Law (to rule) in Zion (at the end) of time.”This passage from the Florilegium is a good illustration of how Scripture was read at Qumran. A text that originally referred to Solomon and the historical Davidic line now refers to the end of days. The son in question is now the branch of David who will appear in the future, or, in common parlance, the Davidic messiah.In view of this background, it is not surprising that the Davidic messiah should be called “Son of God” or “Son of the Most High.” Indeed the Davidic association of these phrases is explicit in the verses previously quoted from the Gospel of Luke: “He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his ancestor David.” Our scroll text from Qumran (4Q246) is probably the oldest extant text that explicitly uses the title “Son of God” with reference to a future messianic king.If we grant then that the Son of God here is the Davidic messiah, what significance does this have for our understanding of Jewish and Christian messianism?The title “Son of God” is of considerable importance in the New Testament and early Christianity. Traditionally, scholarship has been divided between those who see the attribution or divine titles to Jesus as a result of Hellenistic influence and those who understand them against a Semitic, Jewish background. Fitzmyer, a prominent champion of Jewish backgrounds, has nonetheless claimed that “There is nothing in the Old Testament or Palestinian Jewish tradition that we know of to show that ‘Son of God’ had a messianic nuance.”7 Even from the brief sketch we have presented here, it should be clear that this claim cannot be maintained. There was a clear basis for giving “Son of God” a messianic nuance in 2 Samuel 7 and Psalm 2, given the propensity of Jews of this period to interpret Scripture as prophecy of the future. The Florilegium text from Qumran provides concrete evidence that Jewish interpreters of Scripture had made the connection between the Son of God and the messiah before the rise of Christianity. The newly published Son of God text from Qumran is a major corroboration of this connection.The Jewish background has implications for the meaning of the expression “Son of God.” In the Gospels of Matthew and Luke (but not in Mark, the oldest Gospel), Jesus is the son of God in the literal sense, insofar as he is born of a virgin who was impregnated by the power of Holy Spirit. In Israelite and Jewish tradition, however, a king was the son of God by adoption, with no suggestion that he did not have a human father. In the Hellenistic world, rulers were sometimes said to have been begotten by divine beings. There was such a legend about Alexander the Great. In a Jewish context, however, “Son of God” was a title that expressed a spiritual rather than a biological relationship to God. (The phrase could also be used for people other than the king, for example, the people of Israel as a whole in Hosea 11:1 or the righteous man in the apocryphal Wisdom of Solomon 2:13.) It is likely that Jesus, too, was first called “Son of God” because he was accepted as messiah, and that the stories about his birth were formulated later.8Jesus, in the Gospels, is often designated by Jewish messianic titles. (Christ simply means “messiah.”) Nonetheless, the way he is portrayed does not fit easily with Jewish messianic expectations. The Son of God in the text from Qumran is rather typical of these messianic expectations: He will establish an everlasting kingdom and make war cease from the earth; God will cast the nations down before him; he will be a warrior who relies on the power of God. Jesus of Nazareth was no warrior, and some of his followers may have been disappointed in this respect. His death by crucifixion was not part of the common Jewish script for a successful messiah. Nonetheless, his followers persisted in their belief that he was indeed the Messiah.One of the ways in which they justified this belief was by reinterpreting the vision of Daniel about the “one like a son of man” who would come on the clouds of heaven. As we have seen, the Son of God text from Qumran is closely related to Daniel’s vision. It is possible that the Son of God was identified with Daniel’s “one like a son of man,” but we cannot be sure because of the gaps in column 1 of the text. The Gospel writers, however, placed more emphasis on the heavenly setting of Daniel’s vision. The “one like the son of man” would not achieve his victory on earth, but on the clouds of heaven. Jesus did not judge the nations in his earthly life, but he would come back from heaven after his death to do so (see Mark 13; Matthew 24; Luke 21). The Book of Revelation, written at the end of the first century, envisages Jesus as a rider on a white horse who would strike the nations with the sword of his mouth (Revelation 19:11–16: “From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron” [19:15]). The early Christians recognized that Jesus had not fulfilled the common Jewish expectations of the messiah. Some of them, at least, held that he would conform more closely to those expectations at the Second Coming.The relevance of the Son of God text, and of the Dead Sea Scrolls in general, to early Christianity is complex. The scrolls illuminate in many ways the conceptual world in which Christianity developed and the language on which the Gospel writers drew. Yet there were also factors that led the Christian movement to diverge from its Jewish matrix. Not least among these factors was the acceptance of a messiah who did not conform to the expectations of many Jews of the time.The ‘Son of God’ Text in TranslationSidebar to: A Pre-Christian “Son of God” Among the Dead Sea ScrollsColumn 1Column 1aysrk µdq lpn trv yhl[[ … 11 … up]on him rested. He fell before the throneûwnvw zygr hta aml[[l] akl[m … 22 … k]ing, [for]ever you are angry, and [your features] are changedaml[ d[ hta alkw ûwzj a … 33 … your vision and you forevera[ra l[ att hl[ ÷ybrb[r … 44 … the m]ighty. Affliction will come on earthatnydmb br ÷wryvjnw … 55 … and great carnage among countries÷yrx[mw] rwta ûlm … 66 … the king of Assyria [and Eg]ypta[ra l[ hwhl br … 77 … will be great on earth÷wvmvy alkw ÷wdb[ … 88 … will serve, and all will ministerhnkty hmvbw arqty ab[r … 99 … will be called [gr]eat, and by his name will be calledColumn 2Column 2ayqyzk hnwrqy ÷wyl[ rbw rmaty la yd hrb 11 Son of God he will be called and Son of the Most High they will name him. Like the flashesl[ ÷wklmy [÷y]nv ÷htwklm ÷k atyzj yd 22 that you saw, so will their kingdom be. They will rule for year[s] onhnydml hnydmw vwdy µ[l µ[ ÷wvdy alkw a[ra 33 earth, and they will trample all. People will trample people and province, provincebrj ÷m jyny alkw la µ[ µwqy d[ vacat 44 [vacat] until the people of God arises and all rests from the sword.[÷]ydy fwvqb htjra lkw µl[ twklm htwklm 55 His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom and all his ways in truth. He will jud[ge]¹sy a[ra ÷m brj µlvl db[y alkw fwvqb a[ra 66 the earth in truth and all will make peace. The sword will cease from the earthhlyab abr la ÷ydgsy hl atnydm lkw 77 and all provinces will worship him. The great God will be his patron.÷hlkw hdyb ÷tny ÷ytt[ brq hl db[y awh 88 He will make war for him. He will give peoples into his hand and all of them…ymwht lkw µl[ ÷flv hnflv yhwmdq hmry 99 he will cast down before him. His sovereignty is everlasting sovereignty, and all deeps …Endnotes:

4. The messianic interpretation was first proposed by Frank Moore Cross. I am grateful to Professor Cross for sharing with me the notes that he compiled after Milik’s lecture in 1972.

5. David Flusser (“The Hubris of the Antichrist in a Fragment from Qumran,” Immanuel 10 [1980], pp. 31–37) argued that the Son of God figure was the Antichrist or anti-Messiah. But the Antichrist, conceived as a mirror-image of Christ, is a Christian idea and unattested in pre-Christian Judaism.

6. Fitzmyer, A Wandering Aramean, pp. 92–93.

7. Fitzmyer, The Gospel According to Luke I-IX, p. 206. Fitzmyer adds that “the title ‘Son of God’ was as much at home in Palestinian Judaism as in the contemporary Hellenistic world.”

8. For an excellent, full treatment of this complicated issue, see Raymond Brown, The Birth of the Messiah (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977).REFERENCE FOR THIS ARTICLE

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It simply began by wanting to re-familiarize myself with what I always considered to be one of the first acts of obedience after a new Believer accepts Messiah into their spiritual heart —the act of baptism. I felt that this task should be easy enough to refresh myself during a quiet day of Shabbat! But from the beginning of settling into my spiritual feeding, what I thought I knew began to unravel itself, and what I thought I understood became only a shadow of what should be known. The teaching of baptism has haphazardly been taught throughout many generations of the Church Age. But Yehovah, in His love and concern for this last Church Period, is restoring those who deeply seek out His pure ways of worship. Ahhhh . . . how I love His timely teachings! It began in Hebrews, where I read: Heb 6:1-31 Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, 2 of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 3 And this we will do if God permits. What Yehovah permitted on this day was the intrigue that caught my eye concerning the wording of verse two which states, “the doctrine of baptisms.” Baptism(s)! —Plural!At that point a flood of other verses started to come into my head. Luke 3:1616 John (the baptizer) answered, saying to all, "I indeed baptize you with water; but One mightier than I is coming, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 1 Cor 12:1313 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body — whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free — and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. In those two verses alone, it speaks of four types of baptisms: water

the Holy Spirit

fire

identification of Yeshua within the body of Believers I always considered baptism a one-time event in life. But now I am realizing that there are different baptisms, indeed! Just as Hebrews 6:2 has now revealed in “the doctrine of baptisms.”

In Hebrews 6:2, the Amplified version reads just a bit different referring “the doctrine of baptisms” as being “ teachings about purifying;” having the word ‘teachings’ pluralized. Along with ‘teachings’ was the word, ‘purifying,’ which brought together for me where I needed to begin. For everything taught in the New Covenant will and should have its foundation laid within the Old. I began my search by looking up all the verses that I could find pertaining to baptism and purification. I then remembered that a writing had already been done for another study on the historical aspect of purification, so I re-read what had been put together years ago. Once I felt satisfied that I could go no further, I then turned my attention toward other Believers who, like myself, have searched this matter out before me. My first stop was with Michael Rood, a Messianic evangelist, who has done a three-part series of what he collectively calls, “The Mikvah – Doctrine of Baptisms.” His teaching included six types of mikvah-ings: Purification

Repentance

Identification with Yeshua

Spirit

Fire

Suffering Yet, I clearly see a seventh that was not mentioned in his teaching: Sanctification Having had the word mikvah previously introduced in my life, the element that there were many different types took me off guard and still had me a bit puzzled after completing the teaching from Michael Rood. For me, a mikvah was the contained place that pooled the water; whereas, Michael Rood used the word ‘mikvah’ as also the act of being mikvah(ed). I came to accept it to be similar to the wording that we baptize in a baptismal. I had not ever given thought of the place and the act of mikvah being so similarly used, but it simply became a matter of wording within his teaching. This is not to criticize, but to give a bit of explanation to anyone else researching water purification from the Old Covenant and the elements of ‘types’ that are found within the New Covenant. Because of the teaching from Michael Rood, a door was opened for me to walk through and the understanding was astounding. Very briefly, let me share with you what was gathered directly from his teaching; along with what I understood prior to this research. The act of Mikvah, as related in the first three, have everything to do with the covering over with water:

Purification

Repentant obedience; as in the immersion spoken of in Matthew 28

Identifying with Messiah through His act of burial and resurrection into a new life

The final four have to do with our spiritual walk as we are covered over, immersed, and engulfed with the Holy Spirit sent from both, the Father and the Son! They are:

Receiving the Holy Spirit; sealing each Believer for the day of redemption Being Spirit-filled by holy fire through His teachings, fruit-bearing, and gifts Sufferings; as we learn His ways by laying down our own self-will Sanctification; being set apart from this world; walking a Spirit-filled life I am verythat therenew Believer through obedience. I now understand it also to be the immersion of teachings, the fruit-bearing and the gifts that are received from the Holy Spirit; and not to be left unmentioned, our sealing! appreciative of Michael Rood’s teaching and through it have become intensely aware is so much more to baptism than that of being immersed completely into water as a The last detail needed here is to offer scripture references for each area concerning baptism(s) by what was gathered from the three-part series of Michael Rood’s broadcast called, “A Rood Awakening.”1 Below, I have selected a few scriptures to fit into each category. TYPE OF BAPTISM SCRIPTURE REFERENCES Purification Acts 21: 15-26 (in particular vss. 23-26); John 11:55 Repentance Matt 3:11; Mark 1:4; Luke 3:3; Acts 19:4-5 Identification with Yeshua Acts 2:38; Rom 6:3-4; Gal 3:27-29; 1 Peter 3:21; Spirit Mark 1:8; John 14:16, 26; Acts 11:15; Gal 5:22-23; 1 Cor 12:4-11 Fire Acts 2:3-4, 17-21; 2 Cor 3:18; 2 Cor 4:6 Suffering Rom 5:3-5; Rom 8:17-18; 2 Tim 3:12; Sanctification Romans 8:13-14; 2 Cor 7:1; 1 Thess 4:7-8; 1 John 3:3 Next, I want to bring in the word meanings of mikvah/baptism from the Strong’s Concordance. MIKVAH: OT:4723 miqveh (mik-veh'); or miqveh (1 Kings 10:28) (mik-vay'); or miqve' (2 Chron 1:16) (mik-vay'); from OT:6960;* something waited for, i.e. confidence (objective or subjective); also a collection, i.e. (of water) a pond, or (of men and horses) a caravan or drove: KJV – abiding, gathering together, hope, linen yarn, plenty [of water], pool. * OT:6960 qavah (kaw-vaw'); a primitive root; to bind together (perhaps by twisting), i.e. collect; (figuratively) to expect: KJV – gather (together), look, patiently, tarry, wait (for, on, upon).

MIKVAH: OT:4724 miqvah (mik-vaw'); feminine of OT:4723; a collection, i.e. (of water) a reservoir: KJV – ditch.2 The word – MIKVAH – can now be easier discerned as to how it is used scripturally within the Hebrew usage of the word. But mikvah went through a total word translation once its concept was written into the Greek text of Yehovah’s Word; for there was no word-perfect Greek translation for this word. So the concept of mikvah was then translated into Greek from the many variations of the word – BAPTO – BAPTIST, BAPTIZE, BAPTISM, WASHING, DIP NT:911 bapto (bap'-to); a primary verb; to overwhelm, i.e. cover wholly with a fluid; in the N. T. only in a qualified or specially, sense, i.e. (literally) to moisten (a part of one's person), or (by implication) to stain (as with dye): KJV – dip. BAPTIST, BAPTIZE NT:907 baptizo (bap-tid'-zo); from a derivative of NT:911; to immerse, submerge; to make overwhelmed (i.e. fully wet); used only (in the N. T.) of ceremonial ablution, especially (technically) of the ordinance of Christian baptism: KJV – Baptist, baptize, wash. BAPTISM NT:908 baptisma (bap'-tis-mah); from NT:907; immersion, baptism (technically or figuratively): KJV – baptism. BAPTISM, WASHING NT:909 baptismos (bap-tis-mos'); from NT:907; ablution (ceremonial or Christian): KJV – baptism, washing. BAPTIST NT:910 Baptistes (bap-tis-tace'); from NT:907; a baptizer, as an epithet of Christ's forerunner: KJV – Baptist.3 From the teaching of Michael Rood to the word comparison of the Strong’s Concordance, I then took a venture onto the internet. There are many who have written on this very subject about baptisms, plural. But one article in particular stood out from the rest. So in conclusion, I would like to introduce some of the introduction which was found on an excellent website which presents a study called, “Mikvah: A Study of Immersion/Baptism” by Peggy Pryor. In part, she states: “The Greek word for baptism is baptizo meaning to immerse or dip a cloth into a vat of dye. The word is derived from an industry of dying cloth in Lebanon. The vats used to hold the different colors of dye, and the process of placing the cloth into the vats was called baptizo. As time passed the ritual purity process of immersion began to be known as baptism. The Hebrew word for immersion is tevilah and means literally immersing in a ritual bath known as a mikvah. Immersion is the act of washing performed to correct a condition of ritual impurity and restore the impure to a state of ritual purity. It is never for the purpose of cleaning or bathing the body. “The mikvah/ritual bath was of great importance to the first century Jew. It was understood that if a community or village had only enough money for a synagogue or a mikvah, the mikvah would be built first. The Torah speaks of numerous things that make a person Tomeh/ritually unclean, and a number of processes of purification. The one act required in all purification processes was immersion in the mikvah. “Life for the average Jew, in the average village, depended on access to the mikvah. A man from the tribe of Levi, a son of Aaron could not assume his office as priest until he had gone through a mikvah. Before a person could be tahor/ritually clean to enter the grounds of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, he must be immersed in the mikvah. The severest punishment was imposed on a person for entering the Temple area in the state of tomeh/ritual impurity. A woman in her monthly cycle was required to wear special clothing so all would know that she was in a state of niddah (ritually unclean due to monthly cycle). She would not be tahor/ritually clean until after entering the mikvah. Immersion in a mikvah is an integral part of conversion to Judaism. Without immersion conversion is not valid. There are many more times an immersion in a mikvah is customary, we will endeavor to explore as many as space permits. “There are two basic parts of Torah, one is the written Torah consisting of the first five books of the Bible, with which we are all familiar. The second part of Torah is just as important but not as well known. It is what we call the Oral Torah or unwritten law. This was handed down orally from generation to generation for about 1,500 years. About the third century C.E. Oral Torah was put into writing by Rabbi Yehudah the Prince and is the foundation of Mishnah. The Talmud was formed after discussion and commentary was added. All Jewish law is derived from this Oral Torah. We might call it the "how to" book. Detail instructions on how to carry out all worship, the festivals, sacrifices, commandments, including ritual purification and preparing the mikvah are in Oral Torah. “The Mikvah is a ritual bath, the Hebrew word mikvah means a "pool" or "gathering" of water. Two direct references in the Bible to Mikvah are in the Bible. In Leviticus 11:36 it is written: "Only a spring and a pit, a gathering (Mikvah) of water, shall be clean…" “The second is Jeremiah 17:12-13 as it is written: "A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. {13} O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters". “The word translated hope in verse 13 is Mikvah thus giving us the understanding that Messiah is the cleansing fountain/Mikvah or hope of Israel. “While Messiah still hung, on the cross a Roman "soldier pierced His side, immediately there came out blood and water"; John 19:34 NAS the opening of the cleansing fountain or Mikvah for Israel. In Zechariah 13:1 it is written: "In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness."4 The entirety of Peggy Pryor’s teaching is very informative. If you are finding that you are benefitting from this study concerning Mikvah/Water Purification/Baptisms, I strongly suggest that you continue on with her five-part series of this subject. Not out of laziness on my part, but I hold a firm opinion that there is no need for me to write further regarding this teaching when Yehovah has already, through His Spirit, used another servant to write the complexity of this topic down. She covers all that I had originally planned to address. Her website can be found below in the endnotes of this study. May Yehovah bless your continued reading as you pursue to learn more concerning “the doctrine of baptism(s).” ___________________________________

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Rethink Greeks-Romans myths and awaken from deceptions of colonizing darkness that enslaved-brainwashed us.

Gods created by religions are super-imposed on our deep consciousness-beliefs and shattered our perfect memories from Source. You are from the Adamic race, perfect.

Earth after two planetary collisions of 3,400+ years interval with other planets – Nibiru-Marduk planetary system was caught by our Sol gravity eons ago. Earth is thrown out of realm – the effects of bursting suns-supernovas on collision with the planets of our Sun-Sol.

These are records written in stone tablets 1x2M+ in Mesopotamia. Mosul, Iraq-Alexandria, Egypt, sung in hymns in step buildings in Sumeria as a recital of how we were brainwashed like what we are today by belief systems.

Our planet known as Tiamat was broken to half, with Earth, a moon and asteroids as resultant ‘debris’ known today. The mini-solar system of Nibiru caught by the gravitational pull of our Solar System has an elliptical orbit and loop, sling shot Sol says Physicist Kaku, Harrington and anthropologists Zitchin.

It has a dwarf star and seven planets and it’s ‘moon’ or planet Kingu’ cuts thru.

Theoretical-meta-physicists said that it will be around our sun in the next few years, another fear effect?

Physicists say planetary star crossing is late 2017 as Nibiru approaches us that will create cataclysmic effects on our planet’s axis and operating gravitational pull. For the record says Zitchin, Nibiru has revolved around us over millennia and created biblical stories of magical religious proportions inclusive of a passing star followed by three Kings.

NASA says Planet X (Nibiru) is coming back then kept silent to keep us calm. They are ‘theoretical’ physicists, made conclusions on what their thoughts and calculations tell them like us.

When are they coming? Guess says NASA while YouTube coverage alarmed us all being part of FEAR factor.

The dwarf star must be similar to our Jupiter on the way to star brilliancy, knowledge brought by NASA..

It sideswiped Uranus and hit ‘Tiamat’ directly with one planet, Kingu says Zitchin and was back after 3,400+ years to divide ‘Tiamat’ into
“FALLEN earth”
the Moon
asteroids,
…leftovers in the process of collision.

This is similar to asteroid earth collision event says scientists that extinguished the reptilians and an event normal in the universe. Earth grows 200 tons a day from space dust-debris and we see this daily, meteors falling down or passing by earth.

We experience the same impacts similar to Nibiru collisions discovered and analyzed thru satellite readings that relocate oceans and continents in the process. Dust, meteors-asteroids form part of our new evolving planet after we have fallen from collision, a very far description of the true nature of ‘fallen earth’ by religions, all false.

There is always light and darkness in the multi-universe.
“The event could have been the provider of seeds of life to earth.”
Seas-oceans-continents are replaced, transferred or created as a result of these collisions.

We call these tectonic or volcanic in origin says science where .continents shift and new islands sprout. Continents moved as a result of tectonic activities.

Beautiful paradise planet Earth has this historical brief of several billion years:
cut, divided, formed again to imperfect ball form-growing, still not perfect sphere by 5-miles.
Dark conquerors write in stone clay tablets to propagate their conquest similar to conquest of Asia and America by the Europeans, history within humans on earth.

Clear as the blue skies, they are commercials to lure us to subservience. Dark beings saw the wondrous creation of paradise complete with all the resources they need to survive and they came in alternating presence of conquest and dominion.

They left their planets as we are left astray and destroyed at the 21st century.

Aside they came for gold and silver to resuscitate their dying planets full of ozone holes similar to acts of the Europeans on other continents. Earth and humans are abused by over-commercialism and mining not far from the Archon conqueror’s destructive acts.

No being can own Mother Earth seeking higher planetary dimensions to 7D. Her final destination is Solar, 8D., perfection for planets. Jupiter is ahead in terms of climb to planetary climb to 8D.

Source Energy’s – SE – creations is attained when light reaches an integrative balance point of positive and negative in all known universes. For humanity, death of carbon bodies is the living start of our spirit to reach higher consciousness.

After 26,000-years of the planet’s revolution, crystalline light form of our body-soul-spirit is an alternative to the death of a body, the latest of Unconditional Love creations as carbon bodies are transmuted, transformed to this light form.

Live life in positive-STO ways, sharing your love-overflowing photon lights with others.

What Photon light you absorbed flow outward from your loving heart and mind that overflow to all complimented by Central Suns and other Stars in terms of intense energies supplied to Earth and humanity.

STS beings should change and undergo reformation as they seek light of Source.

The negative part of life’s balance thru incarnations is for them to seek a flicker, a spark of light as they have chosen darkness in their ways of life. Love provides darkness the avenue to climb, reach and attach to that spark of light of Source.

The dark beings over lifetimes without energy from Source propagate dark teachings to create fear, anger and hate to make their beliefs reality in their sense of dark existence. For the seekers of light, awakened and who realized who we are, our numbers increase and we assist Gaia rise to 5D.

Call it the reintegration of our spirits’ entity fragmented in 3D-4D and the head at 5D.

The stages of spiritual development and connectivity to Source is individual, thence planetary, cosmic to universal consciousness to ONENESS that we all desire.

They are specific destinations till you are ONE with Source Energy at the 11-12D, Unconditional Love and Free Will. I repeat, what is significant is we are all here to re-integrate our soul-spirit at 3D-4D with 5D Spirit Entity fragmented in several vibrational frequencies.

That is why you are a fragment of the Source of ‘all that is’, a multi-dimensional being.

For 5-6D starseeds, to experience life at 3D an invitation is required. If you are strong at heart and an adventurer. Adamu says, “foolhardy” you agreed to shattering to live in 3D where no one from the higher frequencies can live without forgetting or amnesia. Such is the arrangement for those who agreed to raise the consciousness of Gaia to 5D.

From 5D we fragmented to 4D to 3D and lower 3D.

Intense energies are showered on us and Gaia provide us soul gifts of inspiration, intuition, enlightenment, collective consciousness and unconditional love.

They are now coming to fruition.

Is that not beautiful and wonderful for human souls? We are fragments of light-spirit entity, our embodiment and thru a process of reintegration we are transmuted to 5D consciousness where our 5D spirit entity resides.

We all seek a vibrational dimension where the harvest of soul gifts are at hand.

Grandfather Adamu, Pleiadian says:
“…But most of all we are here in great numbers because of the critical importance to the entire galaxy that Earth’s human population succeeds in the in-situ ascension process that is being attempted here.

This has never been done before.

And if it succeeds, it will irrevocably alter galactic relations. It will end, once and for all, the interplanetary wars that have raged since the beginning of time.”
I hope his remarks have an impact to your lives as it has done with me although mine came from Christ Consciousness-CC at an early age of 12 and reinforced by Arcturians and Pleiadians overflowing information from the Light.

Imagine darkness can finally be eliminated from the universal role of evolution, monotony or perfection.

WARS, DEATH TO INSTILL FEAR

People talk of world wars and forecasting WWIII, even movies at dark dominated Hollywood forecast these fear predictions that seeps into our consciousness unknowingly as entertainment but they all talk of love as the only solution to wars.

The Wonder Woman of DC forecasts WWIII movie in the making and how she saved her in the script.

“She”, the script writer must be an ascended being like Adamu who says that only “love” can save earth. My grandchild interviewed me on my experiences on these wars for a school project report.

It is incorrect word for one planet discussing world wars as they are really nation or ethnic wars like the Axis-Germany and Japan and Allied-American-Euro group conflict of WWII.

Planetary wars or world wars as Pa Adamu says are continuing events in the universe-dark-light planets.

Imagine at our Milky Way Galaxy, 65M living planets with beings like us – negative-positive ones – who are at war and who will triumph is in the thoughts of Source Energy. You are given the chance to see direct the light of SE and the elimination of these raging world wars.

Advanced beings bring you the whole story in vivid pictures, telepathic, and it is up for you to say it in your words in your language.

Less educated humans eons ago described gold and silver lined homes as palaces and 7th heavens unknowing what they really are and tell us they met or sit with the father. They never knew they are earth’s properties ransacked by the Archons.

What brainwashing they did to us for commercials and love of money.

Tribal wars or killings is described by the dark as patriotism to look good – to serve their purpose, colonization and dominion over others when you have to perfect love of others from love emanating from your heart, nothing else. Peace can never be attained by wars but only by unconditional love bringing peace.

We know that at this stage of earth, those are only words and are difficult to attain in an unjust, suffering and ‘chaos’ environment where extremist of religions turned terrorists to create caliphates.

That is the reason of our presence, why you are INVITED to assist humans in physicality with direct assistance from. Source overflowing us with intense energies from varied sources. Refuse to harm or traumatize others and peace and harmony will start in our world.

This means you have conquered implants made by Archons and humans are awakened.

The dark created litany of havoc in major countries eliminating-exterminating, millions of humans, stories of fear creation.
People in millions, all in exodus running to Germany-Europe creating terroristic activities for some.

Syria bombings, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan invasion

PH by ISIS at Marawi City takeover in 2017,
…are current war aggressions by presumptuous warlords.

Advanced beings SE lieutenants are not subject to time nor space and has transcended incarnation processes. They observe us in our skies unseen for the last thousand years of illusion assisting humans if asked.

They are not subject to time and space.

UK parliament leaders apologized in 2016 to their citizens for the death of their youths in Iraq war. USA Bush must be crawling in the dark for his actions. We hope they ask forgiveness from the people of Iraq who are wronged and traumatized.

Their true purpose is the destruction of records, lost as a result of bombing for us not to know and learn the truth about human real heritage.

Mosul is destroyed including the mosque where ancient records are maintained. This is a continuation of the war to destroy the records of Nineveh Library.

On the nuclear front taught to us by Sirian Beings, we cannot waste this golden opportunity nor be bullied by dark beings to pulverize ourselves with nuclear bombs, a repeat of Sumerian cities, Hiroshima-Nagasaki, Japan annihilation.

Chernobyl and Fukushima are worst post-war disasters of the nuclear type of power generation, destructive power and the ocean currents are shifting to Asia.

Sirians, the good Higher Beings of their planet can undo this technology and clear the waste. Truman had his dark ways knowing that the war against the Axis is already won and still dropped 2 nuclear bombs, a horrible trait of negatively polarized beings who had this technology done on Earth.

Destruction of written stone tablets, monuments-olden buildings is their aim. Infighting of religions and records destroyed created the loss of the Great Libraries of Niniveh-Mosul in Iraq and Great Alexandria Library-Egypt.

Keeping us blind is dark tool. 7 Nuclear bombs destroyed Sumer. Records lost means DG13- puppets won at least for 26,000 years of dominion.

Other libraries exist humanity know at Ascension and that we are in today with Internet.

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE , ACCEPTANCE AND FORGIVENESS

Source Energy is at 11-12D and endless frequencies of unconditional love-free will.

He allows the dark to recognize their ills and to start to seek light again. We have to undergo removal of defects, healing, cleansing and repair to restore us to perfect creations, mind body form as our light spirit is perfect, untouchable but lived in a dark physical body whose dark experiences have to be healed and cleansed.

That is the meaning of SE’s love, light and free will despite impurities.

On false beliefs, analyze the 1800 AD virgin mother stories. Studies from stone inscriptions quote Egyptian and Iraqi scholars on questionable teachings which should be reviewed for record.

Analyze records and we quote:
Virgin mother story comes in 2 dozens of stories like Horus, 3000 B.C. the Egyptian God is born of the virgin Isis, Mithra-1200 B.C, Persian God, Attis, 1200 B.C.

Greek god of virgin Nana-Krishna, 900 B.C., Dionysius, 500 B.C.

Greek god, King of Kings, only begotten son, born on December 25 with 12 disciples, died for three days; resurrected, a perfect copy for Apollonius-Gesus created by Constantine, now popularly known as Jesus.

Horus life is inscribed on the walls of the Temple of Luxor in Egypt in 3,500BC with images of the “annunciation, immaculate conception, virgin birth, ministry, death and resurrection” 1,500 years before ‘Gesus’, Jesus for Constantine.

Scribes of Egypt describe the virgin birth of December 25 of various Gods that went to the underworld and after 3 days resurrected.

Priests and bishops tell us that only Gesus – aka Apollonius – had this birth December 25 virgin birth, a mockery to thinking and analyzing awakened humans.

Two websites describe in detail the same stories made by Constantine in 325 AD. That is the meaning of awakening, believe or not, we start to teach-learn and further analyze and seek the truth.

Everything is an individual path to unity consciousness, what you do is what you get.

We do not have a blind eye for truth and reality of events. Analyze and let your spiritual heart and mind decide, as you can feel it in your heart. Imagine, they are all 50,000+ 200,000+ years old.

Priests use 1,800 years as long religious history.
Predictions of scientists at YouTube about Nibiru collision are preposterous.

They are MSM, only our collective consciousness can make things happen with the assistance of ‘all that is’ and SE lieutenants. Our collective consciousness creates the reality we want, final.

Nibiru has been passing by nth times in a million years and the ‘Sons of Gods’ are beings like us who implanted us with retardant genes to make us slaves.

At one planetary crossing, after learning gold is common on Earth, they landed 600 astronauts to be the first miners then we became slaves.

The astronauts go on strike after thousand years as they are not miners nor slaves. They made us slaves to replace the 600 astros. We reproduce for their fodder and labor in mining, household and agricultural farms. Go deeper, analyze and learn. Fear creation has been perfected by Archons and you can stop it now knowing your DNA lineage from the stars.

Similar to Nibiru that found our gold, NASA and other countries with similar research facilities found planets.

In June, 2017, NASA scientists have found 4034 exoplanets and 2,335 of them are confirmed as planets; 50 of them are habitable zones with water potential.

Susan Thompson of Kepler Mission made humans seekers of truth as we are really made by Source to be the,
“transferors of knowledge to the universe”.
We start our mission by research and learning.

INTENSE ENERGIES

Every 26,000 (25,920) years we pass the Photon Belt that overflow us with intense energies from Central Suns and stars.

Dark beings will have to construct dungeons, tunnels and mile long air-conditioned pits to hide from these healing lights. Some exist near the core of earth, a prison for the dark.

Most of them left for other 3D planets or return to their own planets at the Milky Way Galaxy to escape from intense energies.

Who knows the $11B collider tunnel in Switzerland is of dark origin hiding in the guise of testing and bombarding light to neutrinos in underground mountains. Let us know if you are not dark in origin and a practicing professional in that dungeon as negatives may emerge again after passing the Photon Belt.

The collider was constructed to destroy anything wholesale as it can blast light to neutrinos, earth minerals to nothingness, all a matter of opinion. No human can predict the future. NO ONE even if he says he is “god” can tell final transformation to New Earth-Golden Age.

The word God is Archon origin, thus untrue. We call them sons of Gods.

Archons create FEAR dark ‘God’, and tell us of apocalypse. Photon energies provide transmutation of human bodies to crystalline form and we are on the march-journey to “Golden Age”.

With these intense energies, we learn light language and acquire soul gifts on our way to 5D love, light and collective learning. It is time that unity consciousness be primordial in our thoughts seeking connectivity with ‘all that is’.

For the dark seek that spark, that flicker of light and embrace these overflowing pure white light from Source Energy, the Central Sun that create our dreams of a 5D to 6D world-the Golden Age of Gaia.

After being raised to 5D, you completed your difficult journey-passed for a new assignment.

Of course you can settle at 5D for a moment NOW, for R&R as there is no time anyway in 5D or you can be observer of other planets similar to our galactic brothers and sisters, learning and assisting humans where we can easily mix.

They are also learning a new skill, combination of love from heart connected to mental development. Emotion of LOVE is new in the galaxies of beings.

We ask why would “he” have gamut of experiences-evolutions of creations when nothingness to intelligence is the start of the universe?

Intelligent Energy got curious and curiosity filtered to Source Energy; gave free will, unconditional love and light with all types of beings, planetary systems, galaxies, universes and multiverses created out of the curiosity of Source.

Meta-physical history for you to analyze and think about!

Think again, death of physical body is one of the ways to experience higher consciousness! Choose Ascension as we are led to it by ‘all that is’.

About the Weekly Torah PortionFrom ancient times there has been a weekly portion (Parashah) from the first five books of Moses (The Torah) and an ending (Haftarah) from the Prophets read on the Sabbath in synagogues around the world. This portion is given a Hebrew name drawn from the opening words of the Torah passage.We have found that in perusing these weekly readings, not only are we provided opportunity to identify in the context of God’s Word with millions of Jewish people around the world, but very often the Holy Spirit will highlight specific passages pertinent that week in our intercession for the Land and people of Israel.The Haftarah, unless otherwise noted, will be that read in Ashkenazy synagogues around the world.

PORTION SUMMARYThe Parashah for 23-29 July 2017 is called D’varim—“Words.”Shabbat Hazon—“Sabbath of Vision”, so-called because the Haftarah for the Sabbath coming before Tish’a B’Av (“The Ninth of Av”) is always taken from the first chapter of Isaiah, which begins, “The vision of Isaiah.” It is the third and final “Haftarah of Affliction/Admonition.”DEUTERONOMYThis week we enter the Book of Deuteronomy (Hebrew: D’varim—“Words”), a great collection of addresses given by Moses to Israel shortly before his death. It includes reminiscences regarding where they have been, what God has done, final instructions, warnings and admonitions regarding what is ahead.Deuteronomy 1:2-3. “It is eleven days’ journey from Horev by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea. Now it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him as commandments to them…”The implication is that the 40-year journey to Canaan from Mount Sinai (Horeb) might have lasted only eleven days, but for the peoples’ rebellion and unbelief (Hebrews 3:16-19).Deuteronomy 1:7-8. “Turn and take your journey, and go to…the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates. See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.”After over 2000 years, Israel has miraculously regained her ancient tongue, and begun to be gathered and returned to a portion of the land described here; she is once again a great nation, one to be reckoned with in the world. Her circumstances ‘on the ground’ are, however, still very different from when she was first set marching into Canaan by her God.PLEASE PRAY:That God would establish Israel’s boundaries according to His timetable. That He will give her leaders revelation regarding those boundaries. Where are the boundaries to lie at present? (Obviously Israel does not at this time lay claim to all those areas lying within Lebanon, Syria and the present-day Kingdom of Jordan originally promised to her). How is Israel to relate to non-Jewish peoples who are presently dwelling in portions of these lands?That God’s “kingdom come” among Jewish people living in both internationally recognized Israel and the disputed territories—that Jacob’s children have supernatural revelation regarding both the Kingdom of Heaven and their place in it here on earth in the land of their Fathers.Deuteronomy 1:16-17. “Then I commanded your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the stranger who is with him. You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man’s presence, for the judgment is God’s….” Isaiah: 1:26 (From this week’s Haftarah). “I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the ‘City of Righteousness’, ‘The Faithful City.’”In Israel, there is no “trial by jury”—rather, the “judge” (or a group of judges) decides each case. We are grateful for the integrity and rightness evident in the decisions often made in the civilian courts—everyday ‘traffic’ courts, misdemeanor courts, etc. At the same time, we are aware of cases in which judges appear to have been strongly influenced in their rulings by Orthodox intimidation, or other factors related to “political correctness”. And the higher courts are often influenced by spiritual powers of which they are not aware. Our Supreme Court building itself was designed and laid out for construction under obviously strong Masonic influence; part of its outer décor includes a ‘pyramid’ structure atop the roof.PLEASE PRAY: That righteousness be supernaturally restored to Israel’s courts. That God anoint and raise up righteous judges as of old—such as Othniel, Ehud, Jephthah, Deborah and Samuel—who will be protected in their youth, and in times of need and repentance rise into their places in wisdom, truth and favour. “Righteousness exalts a nation…” (Proverbs 14:34); “For the word of the LORD is right, and all His work is done in faithfulness. He loves righteousness and justice…” (Psalm 33:4-5).Deuteronomy 2:10-12; 20; 22; 3:11. In these passages Moses carefully lists the Emim (2:10); Horites (2:12,22); Zuzim/Zamzumim(2:20), and Rephaim (2:11; 3:11) as peoples “great, numerous and tall” who had nevertheless been easily conquered by the time Israel came to enter the Promised Land. It was terror-rumours of these same peoples which had contributed to the evil report of the ten spies forty years before (Numbers 13). If only they could have considered (as perhaps did Joshua and Caleb) that Chedorlaomer, who had defeated all of these giant races (Genesis 14:5, 16), had himself been subdued by their father Abraham through faith in the power of his God, they might have brought back a different report.Notably absent from the list of “giants” in Deuteronomy 2-3 is any mention of the Nephilim, mentioned, in their terror, by the ten spies in Numbers 13:33. As noted previously, the only place where “Nephilim” are mentioned after the Flood is in that evil report of those spies (including their theory that “the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim.”). It is the opinion of the writers that, for all the recent interest in Nephilim, both in secular and some Christian circles, Biblical evidence points to their identification with the “angels who did not keep their proper domain…(whom) God has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day” (Jude 6).PLEASE PRAY there when faced by evil terrors and spiritual giants which still linger, we will remember the God who was the shield of Abraham (Genesis 15:1) and his victory over all such powers.Isaiah 1:16-18. “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil, Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together,’ says the LORD, ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.”PLEASE PRAY: That these words will pierce Jewish hearts through the Holy Spirit when they are read in synagogues this weekend—that Jews will find the Way revealed and open for them to come into this cleansing!Isaiah 1:27. “Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her penitents with righteousness.”Praise God! for a redemption which is altogether just…and which brings all who repent (both Jew and Gentile) into a place of true righteousness before the Father—“He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (II Corinthians 5:21).

[The Parashah for next week 30 July—5 August 2017 is called V’Et’chanan—“And I Pleaded….”TORAH: Deuteronomy 3:23—7:11; HAFTARAH (Shabbat Nachamu—“Sabbath of Comfort”): Isaiah 40:1-26.]

The portion, Devarim (These Are the Words) begins with a long speechthat Moses makes before the people of Israel just before his death. The portion contains a historic review of the forty years in the desert, which Moses describes to the people of Israel.The portion also deals with appointing the presidents of the tribes and the judges, the sin of the spies and the punishment, the relationships between Israel and Edom, Israel and Moab, and Israel and Amon, as well as the wars with Sihon and Og. Moses reinforces Joshua, son of Nun, as the next leader of the people of Israel, who is to lead them into the land of Israel.CommentaryFrom the cascading of the spiritual degrees and what we learn about the perception of reality, we know there is no world outside of us. All that exists are the spiritual states we go through, states that are depicted within us. Everything is within us, as it is said, “man is a small world.”We move from state to state. Each state emerges out of its predecessor and is included in it. This is called a Partzuf (face). Each state contains what exists in the previous one, the Reshimot (recollections), impressions, and memories out of which it is born, and which it must now implement. Nothing comes out of thin air; everything relies on what precedes it.These are the stages by which one ascends from the degree of the desert to the degree of the land of Israel. The degree of the land of Israel contains all the previous degrees, from Adam HaRishon (the first man, Adam), with whom the Torah begins. This is why we find that the Torah always repeats states described in previous books and extends them to the next, higher degree.

We use the same pattern in our daily lives at schools, repeating the same material each time on a higher level. That is, we study the same laws but in greater detail. When we study Newton’s laws on a college level, we reencounter what we have already learned several times at school. The difference is that more formulas are added. This pattern repeats itself in various areas in life.In this portion we ascend to a very high degree. “The land of Israel” comprises all of man’s desires that are processed and corrected into having the aim to bestow, meaning completely corrected.All we need is to correct what is in us from the state in which we were born and in which we evolved. We need to turn it from aiming to use our traits egotistically, into using them for the sake of others, as in “Love your neighbor as yourself; it is a great rule in the Torah.” Actually, it is the whole Torah, which explains to us how to correct the heart, meaning of all our desires, which are called “heart.”Today we do not know where we are. We want to discover the meaning of our lives, the reason for life, and what life is for. These and other similar questions awaken specifically in our generation, and often lead to depression, and drug and alcohol abuse. We have no idea what to do with ourselves.A little less than a century ago we thought that the more we had, the happier we would be. We believed that over consumption was better than balanced consumption, until we found ourselves in a state of crisis specifically because we received too much and did needless things only to satisfy ourselves. We acted out of the assumptions, “the more we sell, the happier we will be,” and “the more we buy, the happier we will be.” We created the monstrous advertising industry to advertise redundant products and to make us think that they were actually essential.In the last one hundred years or so humanity has progressed in this manner until we have come to a situation where we are not only unhappy, but are also becoming increasingly poor. We are experiencing repeated instances of scarcity, emptiness, and helplessness.And yet, we have to learn all that on our flesh. It is the first stage in our development, the “preparation period.”From that current stage we will advance to the next one, in which spirituality develops. We will understand that if we continue living as we have been, we will ruin ourselves completely. We have become a machine that consumes and disposes, but in the end, the world will be depleted of raw materials and we will have nothing with which to sustain ourselves in a reasonable manner.This brings us back to the old questions, “How are we to survive?” “How can we have a happy life in a society that is balanced, just, and equal?” “What are the values we should follow in order to have a good life, where we have what we need and deserve?”The heart of the problem is that part of the society receives without any restraints, while others suffer. To mend that, we are entering with the questions we just mentioned into the next stage—the stage of correction, when we must correct ourselves. That stage begins at the foot of Mount Sinai, when we realize that we must establish a just and equal society, with spiritual happiness among everyone, which will spread through unity and mutual guarantee. If we agree to it, we will take upon ourselves the correction method.The wisdom of Kabbalah is the correction method. It explains how we go through the first stages of our correction. The first stage after the preparation period is called “forty years in the desert.” In that stage we must have a leader who understands what must be done, who moves ahead, and whom everyone follows toward the desert.A desert is a place where we do not know how to survive, or how to sustain ourselves—our children and women, as well as the cattle—without food and water. It is a people that passes through the desert, an entire nation, or an individual, in whom there are desires and thoughts that one must gradually correct.In the desert we correct all our desires to the degree of “desiring mercy.” On that degree a person consumes what is necessary for living, and gives the rest to society. “The rest” is everything that one can produce or do in favor of others. A person dedicates everything to society. This is the correction of desiring mercy. Moses, who is in that correction, is the one who pulls a person from the ego into bestowal upon others. He is the one who takes a person through various individual corrections.Within that process there is a disclosure of man’s egotistical desires, which are called “the sin of the spies,” “waters of quarreling,” and wars with certain nations—Amon, Moab, and Edom—some of which should be “slaughtered.” These are desires we must refrain from using for the time being because they are so intense that we cannot correct them, but only restrict them.Under special conditions, a person can correct some of one’s egotistical desires, such as “women.” One can also correct desires that were not used egotistically, but still belong to the ego.For example, the spoils are some of those desires, some of the Kelim (vessels), the abilities that one can correct. This is how we advance through the desert, where each portion is a stage as we pass through stops and camps where we advance and correct ourselves toward a stage of “desiring mercy.”This is why the children of Israel, with all the tribes, count who is and who is not advancing toward the state of desiring mercy. It is work for the sake of the public. Each person has what he or she needs for normal sustenance. This is called “just division.” The rest, one gives to the public.It is not that we all have the same. Rather, it is that each of us has what is suitable for our relative consumption. In other words, since everyone is born different and unequal, the meaning of equality is interpreted differently for every person.Moses’ speech prepares the people for the next degree. The next degree is not one to which Moses belongs, but is the degree where Joshua continues. How can he prepare the people for the future challenges in the land of Israel—with just division and equality among them—when they conquer the land, encountering desires they have never used but must now cope with? How can Moses prepare them for this degree?The children of Israel used the desires that they corrected, and which they will now correct on a deeper level. In total, there are 613 degrees within us. First, we correct them only on the level of the desert, meaning use them only on the degree of Bina, the degree of desiring mercy. Subsequently, on the level of “the land of Israel,” a person turns these desires to ones with the aim to bestow.These are the same desires; there are no others but them. Within us is a kind of package of desires, all of which are egotistical with respect to others. They are called the “evil inclination.” We correct these desires in two stages—the “desert” stage and the “land of Israel” stage. However, we always work with the same desires.In the “desert” stage, a person corrects the desire using the special upper force—the Creator. However, the means to do that is Moses, who is our connection to the upper force. Within us is a quality named Moses, where by using it and connecting to it, we connect to the upper force. This is why Moses is called a “leader.” A leader is one who can help us connect to the upper force. The leader understands and knows all the processes we must go through, or we would have no need for him. He is the highest quality within us, which recognizes the Creator and is similar to Him. Through it, he connects to the upper force.A person sets himself in a special, direct line, where all of one’s desires connect to Moses, and through Moses to the Creator. For now, this is how he discovers the Creator—partially, from time to time. He “speaks” to Moses openly, and through signs to others, as much as those desires in a person can discover the Creator.In the next stage, when we enter the land of Israel, the quality of Moses in a person can no longer accompany us. There needs to be a more advanced quality toward the other corrections, a quality called Joshua, son of Nun. In fact, it is still Moses but with a higher role, with more responsibility. Although Moses seemingly gives him this role during their forty years in the desert together, in fact, Joshua is Moses having ascended to the degree of the land of Israel.The degree of Moses passes away on Mount Nevo, on the other side of the Jordan River. The desires are divided within us into the land of Israel, Jordan, beyond the Jordan River, Lebanon, Syria, and so forth.Afterward Moses begins the next degree, called Joshua, son of Nun. We all begin our corrections on the degree of the land of Israel. That is, all the desires at the level of the desert climb up to the level of the land of Israel, becoming fully in favor of others.First the people who live in Israel today must become aware that they are not yet in the “land of Israel.” Can it be said that we have hardly reached the desert?According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, we are in total exile, not even in the desert.What about leadership, do we have it?We have no leadership because we do not want one. If we wanted spiritual leadership we would receive one; we would discover the leader internally as well as externally.How will there be leadership if we are entering uncharted territory?Indeed, the leaders themselves have no idea what to do.Where is Moses?If we want him, we will have him.Is it inner work?It is also inner work. If we want to correct ourselves we will discover him on the outside, too. All of a sudden, a new leader will appear whom we did not see or know before. And we will know that it is truly him.The children of Israel also did not wish to accept Moses’ leadership. Several times during the period of the desert they tried to bring him down. On each degree, a person must scrutinize if this is truly the force that one is following, since that power constantly increases.It is not a nation or cattle that someone is taking with them. Everything is obtained by educating the people. Only through education does the people begin to see where to go and who can be the leader. The people will see it very clearly. This is why everything must be done by education. All the slogans that people write must first be explained: What is equality,what is justice?Indeed, what is equality? After all, we are different and we have different needs.True, everyone should receive differently in both quantity and quality. It cannot be any other way.But someone might say, “My ego requires ten million dollars a year.”This is why we first need an education system that will teach us Nature’s laws, the laws of Creation that are appearing before us now. First, we must all learn about it, open our eyes, and see the world we live in. Perhaps we are unaware of what the world is truly like; perhaps we are demanding things that harm us, as babies sometimes do.Those who are suffering might listen, but right now not everyone is suffering.We all think we are suffering, and we all think we deserve more. Therefore, according to the wisdom of Kabbalah we must begin to balance out society, and at the same time begin to educate, teach, and oblige everyone to study Nature’s laws. We send our children to approximately twenty years in school and university to prepare them for life. Now we are all as little schoolchildren in regard to the world that is appearing before us, and we must all go to school.The wisdom of Kabbalah explains what we are facing. This is precisely why it is appearing. If we do not learn, we will continue on our path, just like an obstinate child who does not listen to its parents and puts itself in danger.We need a preparatory stage. At the moment, many people are out on streets yelling with pain. First they need to be given something to calm them down so they may listen.It has to be in tandem, or it will lead to terrible destruction.You mean you cannot settle for just one of them, but must establish both?Yes.The ruin of the Temple happened due to unfounded hatred. How can we avoid unfounded hatred today?This hatred is the result of our heightened egos, the sin of the spies. We do not want to go to the land of Israel, and it seems to us that it is hard, forbidden, that it is not for us, that it is dangerous. We are made to think that Kabbalah can make us mad, that it is mysticism. In short, we are repelling our own correction any way we can.The spies tell us, “We must correct ourselves; we must come to a state where we are all friends, brothers, in mutual guarantee and equality.” But what equality are they talking about? Do they want equality? These are nothing more than slogans. Everyone is saying, “Give me what I deserve!” But why do they deserve what they demand?For people to listen there must be a terrible decline.True, but we can prevent it. To do that, we need to make our real situation known. We are currently in a new generation, in a completely different place. Our reality is different. We have yet to find the proper name for it, but social ties are different, and so are our international connections.When people are in pain they begin to hate those who are not like them. And yet, we are now witnessing a process of fusion. How do we keep from disintegrating due to unfounded hatred?It is a process of coalescing whose purpose is to break, not to build. This is the biggest problem—that all these forces are now uniting in order to break. Therefore, we should explain as much as we can that there is something very risky here, that we must deliberate, that we must set up round table discussions and begin these discussions throughout the nation, continuously.What is social justice? Is there such a thing as objective, absolute justice?Yes there is—when each receives only what is needed to survive in a reasonable manner.Who would monitor it?According to the overall budget, as much as one can. First, it is tested in percents, how much each one needs overall. Similar to Social Security, everyone receives the same amount, the poor and the rich receive the same allowance from Social Security.It is an economic calculation that in the end must be balanced out. The important thing is to bring the world and the nation to know where we are and why we are the way we are. Now we are required to understand what is a state (country), what is that system, how it works, and how to determine rules. Each of us must partake in it, giving something of ourselves.What is the condition for success?The condition for success is that we sit down and learn what is the new world, just as children are prepared for twenty years before they become productive citizens. We have yet to reach that level—being citizens of the integral world we live in. There are new laws that have surfaced, and no leader or government knows what do with them. Answers can come only by studying the new foundations, which the wisdom of Kabbalah reveals to us.

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Sir Isaac Newton dedicated his life’s work to studying the ever elusive, prisca sapientia (ancient wisdom). Time and space are interwoven in our physical universe, it is my suspicion that they are both also interwoven in prophecy.In the first few blogs, we will look into the late David Flynn’s book, The Temple at the Center of Time. Flynn suggests that an empire’s distance from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, seems to reflect the time that it “falls,” with respect to it’s aggressive behavior towards Israel.If his theory about the past is true, than one can infer that this phenomenon can (or will) be repeated in the future.Page 48- The David Flynn Collection/Temple at the Center of Time“The measure of distance away from Jerusalem in this text implies a spiritual significance. A relationship between Jerusalem and the nations has existed from the foundation of the temple, but has not been completely perceived –and could not be until the conventions of modern science.If a measurement is arced from the point of the temple of Jerusalem’s foundation stone, to the palace of Balthazar, the political center of Babylon, and the exact location the writing on the wall occurred, the distance should relate to the pivotal period that city most influenced Jerusalem. According to current knowledge, such a relationship exists, and is the distance of 539.86 statute miles.According to the Babylonian Chronicles, Babylon fell to the Medes and the Persians on the sixteenth day of Tishri of the Jewish calendar, which is also October 12, 539 BC.Modern satellite measurements between the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and the center of ancient Babylon correspond perfectly to the year and month of Babylon’s fall. (emphasis mine)…… The prisca sapientia relationship in the year of Babylon’s fall and the distance between Babylon and Jerusalem is recorded in statute miles. However, this is not the only linear value that expresses this phenomenon. The nautical mile can also be used to establish significant prophetic and time based results.”So back up the train…….This nation’s “fall” in 539 BC, just so happened to be the same distance in statute miles from the Temple Mount? Did this phenomenon happen more than once? Can it happen to nations that have a positive effect on Israel? According to Flynn, yes, yes and yes. Due to the length of the book, I do not have the time to go into great detail here. A positive example of this distance=time phenomenon, is when the Jewish people were restored to their land in 1948. Flynn states, “Britain was the nation that was “”friendly to the Jews”” and enabled them to return to Israel.” The distance between the Cornerstone of the Holy of Holies at Temple Mount and the “London Stone” at the center of the city of Londinium, (as London was known by in 47 AD) is 1948.40 nautical miles.

Temple CornerstoneAnd where is the cornerstone of the Temple anyhow? Many theologians disagree quite a bit on this topic.Flynn states in chapter nine of Temple at the Center of Time, that it is located directly under The Dome of the Spirits, currently resting on the northwest corner of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.This should be the landmark on which every measurement out from the Temple Mount should be started from.The red marker above shows the location of The Dome of the Spirits, suggested place of the cornerstone where the Holy of Holies would have rested upon, in the Jewish Temple. It is the only currently exposed bedrock on the Temple Mount left unpaved.

Future Prophetic EventsIf this is all true, (and Flynn cites other historical examples of God’s linear timeline, or arc principle), than one could assume that it could be applied in the future, to other nations as well.Joel 3:2, the Lord says: “I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there on my behalf of my people and my inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; and they have divided up my land.”So, we can assume that God can and will divide the land of anyone who touches Israel.If God really did leave an additional code in the temple in Jerusalem, (and in his universe as Newton and Flynn suggest), who could possibly be on the radar? Let’s research who would be in the “distance=time” radius for this year, 2016 or 5776/5777 in the Hebrew Civic calendar.I began with a simple formula.(Based on Flynn Mathematics, featured in Temple at the Center of Time)2016-Gregorian calendar = 5776-Hebrew Civic calendar5776-(nautical miles) = 6646.902 (statute miles) (If (1) statute mi.= .868976 in naut. mi)Next, I pulled up a radius map maker (in 2D) on http://www.mapdevelopers.com, then measured out 6646.902 statute miles from the Temple Mount designation on Google Maps.(Please keep in mind that 2016, runs through both 5776 and 5777 in the Hebrew Civic Calendar. Also important to note: 2017 is 5776 and 5777 on the Creation Calendar.)The above picture is a two dimensional radius map, of 6646.902 statute miles, or 5776 nautical miles from The Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel. Most people can only picture a radius map in 3D….like on a globe. Imagine taking a piece of string and tacking one end to Jerusalem. If you move it in a circle, that is a radius around the center object. In a 2D map, it is quite different. The radius line seems to warp into a wave like direction when measured out in 6646.902 statute miles.

Where does this warped, wavy radius line go?Would you believe that this “line” crosses the New Madrid Fault Line Area at Memphis, Tennessee, up to the north of Yellowstone, over the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and then wraps down the western edge of the “Ring of Fire” in the Pacific Ocean!!!!! These are all areas of huge geological concern right now. Every day, new reports are coming out on how geologists are warning of overdue earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. A simple Google search will display thousands of articles and news clips.I was absolutely astounded that our year, measured out in nautical miles, and then converted to statute miles (to plug into the radius map) crossed ALL these areas of concern!!! I know that many a prophet, including Pastor David Wilkerson, and Dr. Perry Stone, have had some very interesting visions and dreams that God has given them about America’s future. I can’t help but wonder, are these visions and dreams all tied into the same event, or possibly a group of events happening in rapid succession?

The Cracking Montana to Florida Lineament/Missouri Gravity LowHow could America potentially split on this radius line measured out from the Temple Mount? Simple…The Montana to Florida Lineament/Missouri Gravity Low. A gigantic crack, extending approximately 1,700 miles long, over 90 miles across that extends deep into the Earth’s crust.Diagram above is borrowed from www.standeyo.com. It is strikingly similar to the radius maps from the Temple Mount.In an article by Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com, published on: 4 May 2016, it states:“Researchers have been baffled, believing the areas should be relatively quiet in terms of seismic activity, as it is located in the interior of the North American Plate, far away from plate boundaries where earthquakes usually occur.Now, they believe the quakes could be caused by pieces of the Earth’s mantle breaking off and sinking into the planet.”“A new study found pieces of the mantle under this region have been periodically breaking off and sinking down into the Earth.This thins and weakens the remaining plate, making it more prone to slipping that causes earthquakes.The study authors conclude this process is ongoing and likely to produce more earthquakes in the future.”READ MORE: HTTP://WWW.DAILYMAIL.CO.UK/SCIENCETECH/ARTICLE-3573759/GIANT-CHUNKS-EARTH-S-MANTLE-FALLING-CAUSING-QUAKES-SOUTHEASTERN-COMING-WARN-RESEARCHERS.HTML#IXZZ49G0IHJG5So the area mentioned in an article, published in the “Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, a journal of the American Geophysical Union,” is a sizable chunk of the Montana to Florida Lineament/Missouri Gravity Low.I can’t even fathom what would happen, if the Montana to Florida Lineament/Missouri Gravity Low cracked open one day, as a result of the Earth’s mantle sloughing off into molten lava. Could this potentially cause the New Madrid Fault line, the Yellowstone Caldera, and the Cascadia Subduction Zone/Juan De Fuca to all react in a rapid succession of events?

The Importance of the Number 2520With respect to the number 2520, it seems to be one of God’s standards of measurement of the physical world, and maybe even the metaphysical world as well. Flynn states in his book, Temple at the center of Time:“With respect to Newton’s intention of providing direction for the future revealing prophecy, leaving out such an integral point stands in bold relief. He may have intended it as a clue to deciphering the underlying meaning of Chronology. In fact, the number 2520 is the key to Newton’s hidden prophetical direction, and the metaphysical design of prophecy and time itself,”….”Newton ‘s study of its measurements in his Chronology underscored his belief that God somehow inserted this metaphysical property within the geometry of the Temple of Jerusalem.”…”Newton also held the divine dimensions within the Temple of Solomon equal with the physical order of God’s creation.”…”Sha’ar Ha-Heshek of Yohanan Alemanno, which described the study of the wisdom of Solomon and its deposit in the temple of Jerusalem…described the temple as a microcosm of heaven in its design and rituals.”

Reoccurring Numbers-2520, a unifying constant [that] links the creation of God to His influence within creation.Examples:Earth Measurement-7 x 360 (degrees around the earth)= 2520 x 22/7= 7920 Earth’s mean diameter in milesMoon Measurement– 2520-360= 2160 (our moon’s mean diameter)Earth to Moon Measurement– at apogee, the moons distance is 252,000 statute miles from Earth. (2520 x 100 = 252,000)Solar Week– 360 degree (rotation in a day) x 7 days = 2520The Great Tribulation- Will be 360 days x 7 years = 2520The March around Jericho– First 6 days= 6 x 360 degrees = 2160 (moon’s mean diameter, Last day= 7 x 360 degrees= 2520Sacred Cubit= 25.20 standard inchesArk of the Covenant, Tabernacle of Exodus, and Solomon Temple= all designed with the sacred cubit as its measurement standard. (as commanded in Deuteronomy 25;14) (Interesting to note that Exodus 25:20 speaks of the Cherubim on the Ark, and how they are outstretched over the mercy seat.)Release from Babylonian Captivity to Rebirth of Isreal in 1948– From when Cyrus released the Israelites from Babylon in 538 BC to 1948 AD, when Israel became a nation again, was 2,486 years. 2,486 x 365 = 907,390 / 360 = 2520Mt. Nebo, (where Moses was shown the Promised Land), to Temple Mount- 25.20 nautical miles2,520 also happens to be the mathematical equation God left on the wall of Belshazzar in ancient Babylon.“The gerah was the smallest portion of the weight used in Babylonian commerce at that time. Mene (1,000 gerahs), Mene (1,000 gerahs), Tekel (20 gerahs), and Peres to divide the Mene (500 gerahs) equals 2520.” -David Flynn, Temple at the Center of Time.Flynn also states, “Because the “Writing on the Wall’ had the value of 2,520, and occurred in 539 BC, both numbers should relate some way with the pattern of time and prophecy.”This means that whatever Date/Time relationship that may exist in the future, should have the corresponding “2520” prophetic math as its witness.2016 (current year, potential “fall”) – 1776 (America’s founding year)= 240240 x 7 ( “7” is God’s number of completion)= 1680If we take 1680, and cut it into 2 parts of the 3 equal parts needed for the next answer, (remember God likes the number “3”), we get 840840 + 840+ 840= 2520– Our Mathematical WitnessSo when people say that “the writing is on the wall” for America because of its transgressions, they may not actually be wrong. It also makes me question whether or not there is a name parallel here also. Could America possibly be “Mystery Babylon” referenced in Revelation Chapter 14?“And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” -Revelation 14:8

Fine Tuning the Radius MapInterestingly enough, while looking at some of Gil Broussard’s charts on Planet 7x, or what others call the 9th planet or Nibiru, he places the Yeshua (Jesus) Sacrifice at 28 AD. In my curiosity, I decided to plug those numbers into the radius map.Here’s the math, if you’d like to go check it out for yourself.28 AD= 3778 (The corresponding Jewish calendar year) Christ’s/ Yeshua’s year of death, resurrection and ascension5776= (Current year of 2016) – 28 (Year of Yeshua’s Sacrifice)= 57485748= Our new nautical mile reference point5748 (used as nautical mile) = 6614.68 (statute miles from Temple Mount)6614.68= NEW statute mile reference point. This is the number you then would place in the distance field in the http://www.mapdevelopers.com radius map.When I drew up the radius map with this new measurement of 6614.68 statute miles from the Temple Mount, it landed me in the general area as before. Yup……. still in the New Madrid Fault Line Area, north of Yellowstone, Cascadia Subduction Zone/ Juan De Fuca and the western edge of the “Ring of Fire.” Instead of being roughly 20 miles to the south of Memphis, TN; the line cuts directly through Memphis, and several other biblical names.

Town/ landmark names on the “line”This new line, when examined up close, goes through some interesting town names and landmarks:Jericho, AREgypt, ARMemphis, TNOlive Branch, MSTippah River in Mississippi- (Tippah is a Chickasaw word for “cut off”)Bethlehem, MSFriendship, MS– (Could there be a connection with the friendship of Israel and the U.S, and the dividing line?)Township of Zion, MSByhalia, MS– (This one I find most intriguing. This town’s translation literally means “standing white oaks” in Choctaw. The Bible speaks about oaks a few times. These oaks are located in Bashan……Bashan is now the Golan Heights. The same area President Obama is so feverishly trying to divide!!!Pastor Paul Begley of Indiana explains this very well and why it is so dangerous to divide Israel. Here’s the link: https://youtu.be/e0Dg05P1P40The purple stars indicate a town or landmark on the line, yellow stars are towns with intriguing names, (we will address those on a later post).(The picture above is the line that goes through Bethlehem, MS.)

Following the LineWhen you follow the edge of the new “line” (6614.68) to the northwest, it crosses directly above Yellowstone National Park. Yup, really close to a REALLY BIG caldera.The center of the radius in the above picture, is where the northern most part of the caldera in Yellowstone is assumed to be. This shows a distance of approximately 115 miles, from the closest part of the caldera to the 6614.68 radius line, from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel.The “line” cuts through British Columbia, near Vancouver, crossing over the Cascadian Subduction Zone and then wrapping around the “Ring of Fire.” All these areas mentioned are of great concern to many scientists and geologists, as there has been a huge uptick in volcanism and earthquakes this year. It’s rather bizarre that these areas of concern are all in close proximity to this 6614.68 statute mile line from the Temple Mount.Diagram of Cascadia Subduction Zone (from www.earthmagazine.org)Diagram of the "Ring of Fire" that wraps around the Pacific Ocean

Countries, other than America, on the potentially prophetic radius lineDragging along the line of the two dimensional map, one would probably assume that there are many countries that are crossed. Surprisingly, there are just a few. 1 USA– (Relations with Israel are deteriorating rapidly) 2 Venezuela– (President Chavez has been hostile to Israel since the 2006 Israel-Lebanon Conflict, and is now going through extreme economic turmoil and famine) Please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Venezuela_relations 3 Brazil-(Becoming increasingly unfriendly with Israel, since it had recalled its ambassador to Tel Aviv in July of 2014. Brazil is also heavily infested with Zika). Please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil%E2%80%93Israel_relations 4 Canada-(Prime Minister Trudeau is in favor of a two state solution) 5 Micronesia/Yap Islands-(Micronesia has a solid track record of voting for Israel, with regard to UN resolutions.) Please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Federated_States_of_Micronesia_relations 6 West Papua- (Providence of Indonesia, although they do trade with Israel, they side with Arab Countries. In 2014, a BBC World Service Poll showed that only 7% of Indonesians had a positive view on Israel’s world influence.)See: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/country-rating-poll.pdf 7. Maluku Island-(Religious and territorial conflicts between Muslims and Christians there) 8. Timor-Leste– (Predominantly “Christian” nation, with over 96 % professing to be Catholic.) Please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Timor 9. Australia– 10 Haiti 11. CubaIn closing of my first post, I do not necessarily believe that all countries listed above are going to see their kingdoms fall as Babylon did. However, I do believe that they could, the choice is up to them. God gives us free will, but He is also fully aware of His divine appointments. In the book of Joel, God clearly warns what will happen to those who divide His land–Israel. God can easily divide our land. Many men and women of God are saying this.I also would like you to note, this “potentially prophetic, Time=Distance Line” phenomenon, is extremely dangerous for many years to come, as it only moves southwest; (1) nautical mile or (1.1508) statute miles a year. Any year, with in our lifetimes, whether it be 5776, 5777,… 5796 etc., is very dangerous if our nation’s leaders attempt to divide any part of Israel.I personally believe that Hurricane Katrina was a harbinger of what is to come to America, if it divides Israel. This “time=distance line” that I have shown you also works out for Katrina. The line of 2005 goes directly below Ft. Lauderdale, FL; the precise location Katrina first hit U.S. shores on its predetermined path of destruction. For more information on this event and its relation to the “time=distance line,” see: https://prophetictimelines.wordpress.com/2016/05/18/new-evidence-hurricane-katrina-gods-judgment-0n-america/

Obama has been working with the United Nations for the last few weeks to divide the Golan Heights and Jerusalem. In my humble opinion, the radius maps show what will happen to America, if Obama divides Israel.PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF ISRAEL! MAY AMERICA TURN AWAY FROM HER EVIL AND WICKED WAYS.2 Chronicles 7:14- If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their landUpdate: 1/30/2017: On Dec. 23, 2016, the UN passed Resolution 2334. President Obama, abstained from voting, effectually turning America’s back on Israel. Although it is not yet fully enforced, it was a land divide.

Numbers 30. Vows and oaths to the LORD are extremely serious transactions in God’s eyes; such words, coming out of the mouth of a person and binding his or her very soul, must be taken seriously and honoured by all humankind who are made in God’s own image (vss. 2, 6). In Ancient Israel, vows and oaths were binding absolutely on all males (30:2). Yet within the authority structure God had set up, there were certain circumstances in which the positioning of a human father or husband could (as with the divine Father/Husband of which they are a reflection) allow release of a special grace to cover the guilt of a young daughter living at home, or of a wife (the protection and oversight of both for which God held the father or husband ultimately responsible). Thus, if a father, on the day he heard of a vow his daughter had made deemed it unwise, he could overrule her vow and the LORD would forgive her (30:5). Similarly, on the day a husband became aware of a vow made by his wife, he might, if he believed it unwise, choose to “overrule” (Hebrew verb: lehani) and “make void” (Hebrew verb: lehaphir) the vow which she had made –“and what she uttered with her lips, by which she bound her soul, and the LORD will forgive her.”

[It is interesting that both of these Hebrew verbs are used in Psalm 33:10, “The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing (Hebrew: lehaphir); He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect” (Hebrew: lehani). Here also, faulty counsel is cancelled out by a greater authority in an ultimate mercy.]

*Numbers 30:15. “But if he does make them void after he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity”. In a holy sanctuary built and maintained by fallen man, those of the House of Levi were called to “bear the iniquity” of that sanctuary. (Numbers 18:1, 23), while Aaron and his descendants would “bear the iniquity” of his priesthood. There was a special grace given to those in these positions—but if the rest of the Israelites came near to the tabernacle of meeting, they would “bear their sin and die.” Likewise, it appears here that a measure of this same grace was given to a man in his role as “priest” or “Levite” over his home. Ultimately, just as one goat was slain for sin on the Day of Atonement, but another was necessary to be taken into the wilderness to “bear on itself all their iniquities…” (Leviticus 16:22), so would come Another who not only would offer Himself up to die as a sacrifice for sin—but as the Lamb of God, also would bear away the sin of the world (John 1:29).

*Numbers 31:1-2. “And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ‘Take vengeance on the Midianites for the children of Israel. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”

It is important in reading the grim even shocking events of the first half of this chapter, to realize Who had issued the order. In Psalm 94:1 the LORD (YHVH) is twice called El-Nekamot—literally, “God of all Vengeance”. Isaiah 61:2 speaks of the Spirit’s anointing One to proclaim “the day of the vengeance of our God” (as well as to “comfort all who mourn”). II Thessalonians 1:8 prophecies a Day when Yeshua will be revealed from Heaven with mighty angels “in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord, Yeshua the Messiah.” Romans 12:17-20 cautions against believers taking their own revenge for perceived offenses, and quotes Deuteronomy 32:35, “‘Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,’ says the YHVH”. Hebrews 10:30 also quotes this same verse from the Torah as relevant to those who “know Him” today. Vengeance is always His and not ours. Yet Psalm 149:7 makes clear that “Saints” will on occasion be used to “execute [His] vengeance on the nations.”

It is obviously this, the righteous vengeance of God, which is being released through His people in Numbers 31. “It is appointed for [all] men to die once…” (Hebrews 9:27). The time was at hand for these Midianites, including the women who had “caused the children of Israel (even as they were poised to cross into the Promised Land) to trespass against the LORD” (Numbers 31:1).

II. Massei—“Journeys of…”

TORAH: Numbers 33:1—36:13

CHAPTER 33

“Now at the end of the long chain of Wilderness stories that began in Exodus, as the Israelites are poised to cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, we get a grand recapitulation of the whole narrative in the form of an itinerary of all the “way stations” in the Wilderness march” (Alter, Robert: The Five Books of Moses, W.W.Norton & Co: New York, London, 2004 (p. 852, n 1).

*Numbers 33:1. “These are the journeys of the children of Israel, who went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron. (Emphases ours)

As noted when this ‘going forth’ from Egypt was first recorded (Exodus 12:41, 51; 13:18), although the Children of Israel may not yet have been fully aware that they were an “army” (with each member assigned his/her positioning in its arraying), YHVH Tz’vaot, Elohei Ma’arkhot Yisrael (“Yehovah of Armies, God of the Arraying of Israel”—I Samuel 17:45) was well aware! When people are brought out of the slave-house of sin into the Kingdom of Heaven, they will soon discover that they are in a war—but also that they each have a place especially reserved in the army of the Captain of the Hosts of the LORD!

*Numbers 33:2. “And Moses wrote down their departure points for their journeying by the word of the LORD, and these are their journeying by their departure points” (Robert Alter, trans).

“Departure points” (Hebrew: motz’a) is also sometimes translated into English as “starting points” or “places of origin”. All have validity, albeit resulting in slightly different perspectives. In fact, this word is related to that used of God in the traditional Hebrew blessing over meals, “Ha’motzi lechem min haAretz”—“Who brings forth bread from the earth”. So the passage might even be interpreted to read, “Moses wrote down those places from which they were brought forth for their journey”. An old Jewish proverb goes something like this, “You can’t know where you’re going ‘til you know where you came from.” It was important that the Hebrews keep a record of these starting/departure points from which, in the timings of the LORD, they had been continually drawn forth—back into the path of their journeying (Numbers 9:18).

*Numbers 36:7. “And an estate of the Israelites shall not turn round from tribe to tribe, but the Israelites shall cling each man to the estate of the tribe of his fathers” (Robert Alter, trans.).

“Cling” comes from the same Hebrew word used in Genesis 2:24 regarding a man and his wife. It was this charge as related to inherited land which likely fueled Naboth’s response to Ahab in I Kings 21:3, “YHVH Forbid! That I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”

It is important to pray for Israelis returning to the Land of their Fathers—that they will receive from the Lord a fierce, strong zeal after that land, a holy jealousy in valuing this inheritance passed down from the Fathers, who received it as an eternal Covenantfrom the God who chose them and met with them there!
*After Numbers 36:13:

KhaZAK! KhaZAK! V’Nit’khaZEK!—“Be Strong! Be Strong! And we Shall Become Stronger!!

It is traditional to chant this admonishment after reaching the end of each of the Five Books of Moses.

During the three-week period “between the straits” (the 17th of Tammuz through the 9th of Av) the usual Haftarah portions are replaced by special “Haftarah’s of Affliction/Admonition”), calling Israel to sober contemplation of her sin and her deserving of severe judgment—and of the Love of her God still drawing her to repent and return to Him.

*Jeremiah 2:13. “For my people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the Source of living water, and they have hewed themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.”

*Jeremiah 3:4 [Read in Ashkenazy Synagogues]: “Will you not from this time cry to Me, ‘My Father, You are the guide of my youth?’”

*Jeremiah 4:1-2 [Read in Sephardic Jewish Synagogues]: “ ‘If you will return, O Israel,’ declares the LORD, ‘then you should return to me. And if you will put away your detested things from My presence, and will not waver, and you will swear ‘As the LORD lives’ in truth, in justice and in righteousness; then the nations will bless themselves in Him, and in Him they will glory.”

It has always been the divine plan that as Israel comes into a right relationship with her God repercussions will be felt throughout the world—the nations will come into a new revelation of His Glory, and “bless themselves in Him!”

In this portion Moses alerts the heads of the tribes about the commandments connected to the making and untying of vows. The portion also speaks of Pinhas, who leads Israel into a war with Midian and emerges triumphant. Following the war, the text details the division of the spoils (some of which are dedicated to the Creator) as well as the commandments to make the Kelim Kosher, detailing the process of dipping and immersing them in boiling water.

At the end of the portion, the tribes of Gad and Reuben ask to stay on the Eastern bank of the Jordan River because of its good soil for their voluminous cattle herds. They infuriate Moses because he thinks they are seeking to avoid the war for the conquest of the land. In the end they commit to participating in the war and Moses grants their wish for a lot outside the land of Israel.

Commentary
Kabbalists attain the forces and discernments of the spiritual world. These are the forces that operate and manage our world, including the still, vegetative, animate, and human, each of which has a force that runs it. This is why it is impossible to ask anything of people who are not Kabbalists, as they have no free choice, as it is written, “They are all as beasts (animals).” When we read a story in the Torah that seems to be happening in this world, we need to understand that its roots are in the spiritual world, in the network of forces that governs the world.

Today we already feel and understand that we are approaching the network of the forces of the integral nature, which closes in on us and compels us to behave accordingly. It is the appearance of Godliness, which is gradually nearing us.

We see that we can no longer manage the world. Each day we are feeling more and more clearly that nothing in the world depends on us. We are losing our ability to manage the world because we can no longer act in life using our egos.

Kabbalists discovered the upper network and told us how it manifests on the upper level. They did so using words and stories of this world, our world, because everything that exists in the upper one descends to the lower one.

During the forty years in the desert, and even before, Moses wrote his five books, the Pentateuch. Through his attainment, Moses wrote part of the Pentateuch about the times preceding his own. He wrote it in the language of the branches, in the connections between upper and lower. Moses wrote about everything that takes place in the upper world and how the forces are managed. He spoke of them as results, as “marionettes” that move about our world and change.

This is why it is pointless trying to deal with this world; it is utterly governed; there is nothing in it of its own. To know everything, we need to rise to the upper degree, the place where decisions are made, where forces operate and influence our world.

We cannot change anything in this world, and we are well aware of it. Yet, there is one way by which we can change. If that happens, a person can be in bestowal and love according to one’s nearing to the forces in one’s nature. In this way one can change one’s fate here in this world.

In fact, only by changing ourselves can we achieve, “I have created the evil inclination, I have created for it the Torah as a spice,” because “The light in it reforms them.” Only through the light that we draw from the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah can we change ourselves and rise to the upper degree. From that upper degree we can influence the decisions and the mechanism that operate our world. This is why Moses turned to the heads of the tribes and explained to them about untying the vows, about going against Midian, etc.

We need to imagine man as a small world, and everything that happens in the world as happening within. Indeed, within us are Moses and the entire structure called “the people of Israel,” with its priests, Levites, and Israel, being the three lines that comprise our soul. There are also the nations of the world within us, the Midianites, Pharaoh, and everything else that the Torah narrates.

When we discover ourselves and detect within us all those forces and qualities, we perceive the Torah as an instruction. Accordingly, we act to change and adapt ourselves from a person in this world to a higher, spiritual human, aware of the spiritual world, at the spiritual degree known as Matot (tribes).

This is a very high degree, working out of Hesed, the highest Sefira (singular of Sefirot) of the structure of the soul. Out of the ten Sefirot, Keter, Hochma, and Bina are the top Sefirot. They are above our attainment and are the ones that manage us. We approach them through our inner qualities, through arranging them properly as Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzah, Hod, Yesod, and Malchut, which are the seven remaining Sefirot.

We correct these seven Sefirot repeatedly on each degree, and they are called “the seven days of the week.” Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzah, Hod, and Yesod correspond to the weekdays, and Malchut corresponds to the Sabbath. By correcting them we go through the weeks in a circle that eventually brings us to Keter, Hochma and Bina, the top three Sefirot, meaning to the end of correction.

Each week in the year has its Torah portion or portions. These are degrees by which we gradually elevate ourselves to the top degree, by opening up to our interior. As we do that, we find the forces within us and act alongside them.

The quality of Moses in us turns to the heads of the tribes in us, according to the division of the soul into twelve tribes, the tribes he arranged correctly while working with the growing ego from a state called “reception of the Torah” to a state called “entrance to the land of Israel.” The process one undergoes between the states is called “the forty years in the desert.” The desert represents our need to sort out the desires within us and correct them from reception for ourselves into the altruistic form of bestowal, to the right approach toward others, which can be summed up in the maxim, “That which you hate, do not do to your friend.” On the degree of “tribes,” one scrutinizes one’s qualities and how to work with the will to receive.

At first, a person can scrutinize the vows. Vows are states and conditions by which one attains a higher degree. The vows indicate the limitation one can take upon oneself and not fail. However, when one cannot persist with them, it is possible to rid oneself from them much like the untying of vows before Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement).

There are fundamental laws in spirituality that concern man and the scrutiny that takes place within—to what extent one can ask for correction for oneself and work with the force that corrects. Following these preparations, a person becomes aware of one’s ability to work with one’s ego on the level of Midian. Such a person works with the force known as Pinhas, which is the next stage of the force of Moses.

This is when one can truly go to war. A person goes against one’s ego in order to conquer it and works with part of it in order to bestow. We ascend to a spiritual degree by correcting the evil inclination into a good inclination. There is no other substance but our own—the will to receive.

First, it comes with only the intention to receive. At that point it is called “the evil inclination” because it prevents itself from participating with others. When it turns into the good inclination, it connects to everyone. This means that a person has succeeded in the war and has conquered the ego.

Once a person has conquered one’s ego, he gives spoils to the tribes, the priest, the Levite, Israel, the women, and the children. He gives spoils from everything he could take from the still, vegetative, animate, and the speaking degree (human). The Torah details what we must do with the masculine part, which is the right side of the Klipa (shell/peel), and what we need to do with the feminine part, the left side of the Klipa.

On Yom Kippur there is a custom to untie vows. Why then is there a need for vows in the first place?

We cannot grow without a vow. When approaching a higher degree, we have to annul ourselves before the upper one because we have not yet reached that degree and therefore cannot accurately evaluate it. As we study we constantly correct and “update” ourselves.”

There are also complementary actions such as the Second Passover where if we did not prepare ourselves for the correction known as Passover, where we “pass over” the ego, we can come to it a month later.

This sounds like a negotiation. We make vows so we can complete the work later, that if we do something we will receive so and so.

No, there is no such thing. It is not how spirituality works. A person does everything honestly until one discovers that it is impossible to keep moving forward, or that the conditions have changed. We are in a system of interconnected souls that supports us when we fall. We learn about our being in an integral system from Moses, who did nothing wrong except for the striking of the rock, yet the whole nation suffered because of it.

There was only one Moses, but we are just beginners.

There is nothing to say about this world. Here we are nothing more than outcomes of the spiritual world. If we can influence the spiritual world through the study of Kabbalah we will change this world, as well. If we do not, we will change nothing.

In fact, we can impact the spiritual world just by aspiring to ascend to spirituality, and this will impact this world favorably. If we have no ability or desire to change our spiritual situation even if we can, our world will still advance, but on a path of suffering.

How can we change our world if it is only a world of results and we are being operated on, without any free choice?

As soon as we begin to ascend toward the spiritual world, we begin to change this world. Nothing in this world changes it but the forces that influence it from above. Therefore, our only choice in this world is to rise above it.

Is this done by connecting and uniting with others?

Yes, through unity with others.

Will we improve our financial situation, too, by studying Kabbalah?

Everything will change. All the outcomes in this world depend only on the connections between us. There is nothing truly worth doing but securing our sustenance, and dedicating the rest of the time to spiritual ascension. This, in turn, will change everything.

Is the correction personal or does it affect everyone?

The correction is both personal and general, but today it is primarily general.

Why is it so hard to understand it even though it sounds so simple?

We are built according to our individualistic egos. We view the world egotistically. And precisely because of it, today the systems of economy and education are becoming dysfunctional. We cannot succeed anymore because everything is broken and scattered. Throughout history we have become used to advancing using our egos, by trying to profit and benefit ourselves the most. But today these egotistical, linear systems have stopped functioning. We are moving into systems that are round, integral, connected.
Is the reciprocal impact sensed immediately?

Yes, people will feel more important, more successful, and even stronger than the government. Governments act egotistically, like a linear arrow. Conversely, the connections between people are circular. Today we are in a global mechanism in a nature that is integral and global. As a result, we cannot continue to advance egotistically, linearly, as before. Now we have to learn how to ascend, how to increase the aim to connect “as one man with one heart,” because only through unity can we change the way things are.

Matot (Tribes)

“‘And you who cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day.’ What is the reason? It is because the soul of Israel comes from the spirit of the living God. ‘For the spirit before Me will enwrap.’ ‘Before Me,’ meaning before Divinity, from ZA, the living God.”

Zohar for All, Matot (Tribes), item 5

What is the spoil?

The spoil is a result of man’s work with the evil inclination. In this war, a person turns the evil inclination into good inclination using the light that reforms. As a result, a person receives light through that inclination. The light that fills a person—the attainment, that sublime sensation—is a great possession. This is the spoil.

The division of the spoil refers to how one divides the light among all of one’s parts, all of one’s desires and qualities. It denotes how one operates that division mechanism, who receives more, and who receives less.

This portion seems to discuss the root of the conduct of making utensils kosher.
The root of the matter is in our Kelim (vessels), the will to receive. This is where we receive the light. The light may appear in our desires on condition that they are not working only in order to receive, but also in order to bestow—to share them with others. When we connect ourselves to others in this way, the light appears in us. It follows that all our corrections are really qualifications of our Kelim, making them kosher.

Put differently, we need to qualify our will to receive so it aims to bestow, so it is connected to others. The water, which represents Hesed, qualifies the Kelim. If we need to correct a metal Kli (singular of Kelim), meaning make it kosher, it requires a deeper correction. It has to be passed through fire, representing Gevura. A metal Kli represents a desire that was used egotistically and that must be corrected and cleaned more powerfully through “whitening” (heating to the point where the metal becomes white), Mikveh Kelim (a tub used for ritual immersion of utensils), and Hagaalah (dipping in boiling water).

Correcting our Kelim is all that we have in the wisdom of Kabbalah. The correction of the Kelim takes place once a person has acquired them and has shifted them from the aim to receive into the aim to bestow, having conquered one’s desires. This is not only about correcting Kelim in the sense of utensils, or dishes, but about correcting the Kelim when one makes offerings.

The offering is a Kli on the animate level. One “kills” one’s will to receive, meaning the manner in which the will to receive was used before, egotistically, and brings it as an offering (Korban), from the word Hitkarvut (nearing), toward bestowal, in favor of others. Only then can one bestow love upon others using that same will to receive, which then becomes holy.

This is not the only Torah portion where there are wars and struggles.

We are always at war, always struggling, until we reach the end of correction.

If a person has already attained a certain degree and enjoys the light in it, why should one relinquish it?

Because that person would want to pass it on to others.

But that person still has no desire to pass the light to others.

Wanting to pass it on is a precondition for receiving the light.

You mean, in order to receive the light, you first need to want to give it away?

Of course. We already want to receive it because we heard it is good. But we will not receive it until we desire to share it with others. Our world mandates that we become connected because we are approaching the end of the correction process.

Once a person has tasted the light, what would stop one from wanting it all the time?

We advance “on two legs.” One receives Kelim, corrects them, fills them with light, shares them with everyone, and thus does a very good deed, a Mitzva (good deed/commandment). Using the will to receive in favor of others is called a Mitzva. Once a Mitzva is done, another part of the person’s ego that was hidden inside rises and appears.

Eventually, the entire “Egypt” of a person appears, and one is now immersed in an ego that is spreading over the good. The bad suddenly becomes dominant over the good. When that happens a person becomes wicked, and the struggle begins anew: the previous degree disappears inside, “drowning” in the bad.

When Israel enter Canaan and conquer it, there is the Eastern side of the Jordan river. Gad and Reuben wanted that lot. Why did Moses suddenly object to their dwelling on the Eastern bank of the Jordan?

Our will to receive is in the three worlds Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya. There is also the Temple, Jerusalem, Mount Moriah, and the rest of the degrees: The land of Israel, around which is the Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Babylon. Additionally, there are the rest of the lands in the world, but they are not considered as having anything meaningful.

The Eastern bank of the Jordan is the first boundary outside the land of Israel, and therefore does not have the same level of sanctity as the land of Israel itself. This is why Moses, the force that manages all the corrections within us, opposes the children of Israel’s presence there. All the children of Israel must first be inside the land of Israel, and only afterward are there the conquests of David, which include Lebanon, Syria, and Babylon, from the Niles to the Euphrates.

The famed mystic Rabbi, Ha Rav Nir Ben Artzi during the month of March (2017 in the first year of the Era of the Messiah) began to focus his global messianic predictions around the world. As reported by Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz with Breaking Israel News, he noted of great interest how Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi’s past predictions continue to come true as prophesied.

In a recent Jewish synagogue sermon Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi unleased a litany of future and potential disasters that include not only earthquakes, major oceanic and tsunami storms, but also recent international plane crashes whose causal destruction came as stellar EMP bolides of HaShem’s divine judgement in response to global political events.

These have enhanced the notable and spiritual intent of the Divine plus includes powerful relevance to our present prophetic times. As Rabbi Nir Ben Arzi warned while elaborating with intense detail about the current messianic “birth pangs”, does give us insight in the cause and effect intent of Divine judgment upon Planet Earth and the 70 nations of the earth. As the Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi spoke:

Ha Rav Nir Ben Artzi – “The times will continue to be difficult and the judgements will continue to grow stronger: floods, volcanic eruptions, fires and heat, evil spirits, storms and earthquakes. Buildings will disappear into the ground – the ground will open and swallow places in the world. Planes will collide and get lost, ships will get lost and sink.”

Ha Rav Nir Ben Artzi (Facebook)

“The times will continue to be difficult and the judgements will continue to grow stronger: floods, volcanic eruptions, fires and heat, evil spirits, storms and earthquakes. Buildings will disappear into the ground – the ground will open and swallow places in the world. Planes will collide and get lost, ships will get lost and sink.”

This end of days scenario suddenly erupted in March, 2016, when seven major earthquakes struck Japan and Ecuador and crashed into both coasts of the Pacific within 96 hours.

To many of the interpreting seismologists, this is only the beginning of a long range global process of evolutionary development. The rabbis and the believers of the rabbinic faith whether Jews, Lost Ten Israelites or believing Noahides, we are instead watching carefully the development of the global messianic process of recreating a new Gan Eden that will first be revealed to begin on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

As the Chazal, the Sages of Judah have long proclaimed; In the end days when the Era of Metatron, will be revealed as HaShem’s Melekh HaMaschiach (King Messiah) He will be known as the Maschiach ben David (Messiah son of David. At that time:

The Temple Mount will expand to include the whole State of Israel.

The Land of Israel will then expand to include the whole Middle East from the Nile to the Euphrates.

The Middle East will expand to include the entire Planet Earth.

The Rabbis and people of faith will then fully recognize this as part of the Universal Messianic process with the Creation of the “Commonwealth of Israel.”

The Rabbis and the people of the faith will then recognize that what we have been beholding in front of our eyes has been the merging of the two Messianic Mega-Trends; called the Maschiach ben Yosef (Messiah son of Joseph) and the Maschiach ben David (Messiah son of David)

It was in the summer 2016 that earth scientists began to see the remodeling of Planet Earth. Over 500 people were killed when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Ecuador. 1,700 people remained missing, over 4,000 are injured, and thousands more are wandering homeless.

Within 94 hours, a 7.3-magnitude quake hit Japan’s southern island hour later, while over 600 smaller tremors continued to shake the survivors. The death toll in Japan stands at 47 killed, more than 1,000 injured, 8 missing, and over 100,000 left homeless.

Other less-deadly earthquakes were felt around the world. Many scientists are convinced that this recent epidemic of earthquakes is just a prelude to increased seismic activity around the globe in unprecedented magnitudes.

University of Colorado seismologist Roger Bilham told the Express, “The current conditions might trigger at least four earthquakes greater than 8.0 in magnitude. And if they delay, the strain accumulated during the centuries provokes more catastrophic mega-earthquakes.”

Experts from India’s Ministry of Home Affairs warned in January that yet another major quake, equal or larger than the last disaster, can be expected in the region.

Seismologists at Tokyo University estimate there is a 98 percent chance that in the next 30 years Japan will be hit by another major earthquake of catastrophic proportions. Earlier in 2011 a 9.0-magnitude quake killed over 20,000 people, but its destructive effects didn’t end at mere earth-shifting.

Japan’s Fukushima power plant was designed to withstand earthquakes, but a meltdown occurred when the ensuing tsunami washed away generators powering the emergency cooling, leaking large amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere.

This apocalyptic scenario could easily be repeated with devastating results in many developed countries, including the US. Nuclear power plants in California, New York, Washington State, and Arkansas are situated near major fault lines. Other plants in Maine, Pennsylvania, and Virginia have raised concern of their earthquake survivability with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission but were deemed within acceptable standards.

Especially at risk is the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in California, which is situated directly on the ocean, making it very vulnerable to tsunamis. It sits in an earthquake red zone, in close vicinity to four active fault lines, one lying only 2,000 feet away from the plant’s two nuclear reactors.

The Diablo Nuclear Power Plant near Sacramento, California

David Freeman, a former general manager of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, called the Diablo Nuclear plant “a disaster waiting to happen.”

The facts exist that tsunamis are far more devastating than the earthquakes that trigger them. In 2004, the Banda Aceh earthquake, barely felt on land, created a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed about 250,000 people in Sumatra and Indonesia.

A recent study by seismologists at the University of California suggests that Southern California is at greater risk of tsunamis than previously thought. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake in the Ventura Basin Fault could generate a tsunami that would penetrate up to two kilometers inland in less than half an hour, devastating a heavily populated area.

It was Rabbi Yitzchak Batzri, a noted Kabbalist from Jerusalem, spoke to Breaking Israel News about how the wave of earthquakes fits into the Messianic process. There is no doubt that the earthquakes have a divine origin. As Rabbi Yitzchak Batzri pondered, he commented:

Rabbi Yitzchak Batzri – “The potential of earthquakes has been a part of the history of the world since the first days of creation, but the power that brings it into existence is God’s will. The will is triggered by human action. Our actions, in relation to God, affect His decision to enact the forces of nature, especially in things having to do with our rejecting sanctity. As King David wrote:

Psalms 104:32 – “He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; He toucheth the mountains, and they smoke”

This describes what will happen in the End of Days before the final redemption. There will be an earthquake in Israel, but it will be beneficial, opening up the Temple Mount, bringing forth living waters, purifying the city to receive the Messiah.”

The rabbinic understanding of this prophecy has over the centuries is today now supported by the opinions of many scientists. The Land of Israel sits on the Syria-African rift, which runs along the Dead sea Valley. It passes through the area thought to be the sites of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the city of Jericho, which still stands today.

The Biblical accounts of the destruction of the twin cities of evil, and the later account of the falling walls of Jericho, could very well be interpreted as divinely powered geologic catastrophes.

Per Dr. Shmuel Marco’s research on earthquakes and catastrophic event in the Middle East, such catastrophic events have been common to the region over the past millenniums. It was Dr. Shmuel Marco, who studied earthquake timelines and it was expected that that more earthquakes would be expected soon. Major earthquakes were recorded in the Jordan Valley in the years 31 BCE, 363 CE, 749 CE and 1033 CE.As he stated:

Dr. Shmuel Marco – “So roughly, we are talking about an interval of every 400 years. If we follow the patterns of nature, a major quake should be expected any time because almost a whole millennium has passed since the last strong earthquake. The rash of earthquakes has brought about one of those rare scenarios in which scientific theory and prophetic vision agree: earthquakes threaten our future. Man would be wise to prepare, spiritually and physically, for what lies ahead.”

According to the CATDAT database, the socioeconomic loss and metrics from natural disasters globally suggests that floods have caused the highest damage, earthquakes and storms show an increasing role in recent times. The overall data suggests that Natural Disasters since 1900 have resulted in over 8 Million Deaths and 7 Trillion US Dollars damage since 1980.

Rabbi Artiz’s predictions appeared to dove-tail closely the catastrophic waves in which from 1900 up to the summer of 2015 it appears to align themselves with numerous global incidents around the world.

The dual higher magnitude wave of major earthquakes which included a 7.8 magnitude quake in Ecuador that killed over 500 people, and a 7.3 magnitude quake in Japan that killed over 50 appears to come in alliance with global catastrophes as Seismologists were beginning to become more spiritually inclined that prophecy was connected to the end-of days. And while lost planes are uncommon in these technologically-advanced days, it is nearly three years to the day since the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished into thin air.

Rabbi Ben Artzi’s other predictions focused on the Middle East, ranging from the impact of Donald Trump’s presidency on Israel to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and radical Islam.

Rabbi Artzi carried words of encouragement to the Jewish people in Israel with the message that Trump will be good for the Jewish State of Israel and that “Trump is doing his real work in secret, so he can fix all the things that were made “crooked”. He doesn’t like to make his plans public prematurely, and if he hasn’t yet done what he promised, he will.”

Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi prophetic insight on the Jerusalem American Embassy and the bilateral Peace Agreement between Israel and the Palestinians

There has been “One presidential promise that has been reneged upon and failed in the campaign promises of his President Trump’s predecessors was the promise of the American presidents that they would move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the capital of Israel.

This one issue has captured the international attention of all the nations of the world as to whether President Donald Trump will move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem?

Yet not realized due to the subdued coverage of the international media was the fact that there was currently already a delegation of two congressmen who arrived in Israel to begin scouting locations for the embassy in Jerusalem and putting the move into motion.

When it came to the diplomatic potential of a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, the famed mystical rabbi, Rabbi Ben Artzi predicted that there “would be no advances in negotiations” premised on the fact that “coexistence runs counter to the spiritual inclination of the Arabs.” As Rabbi Artzi exclaimed:

Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi – “The Palestinians and Hamas don’t want peace. It is inscribed in their hearts to hate the Jews and to expel them from Israel. The Palestinians can live anywhere else in the Middle East, but they choose to cope with the difficulties in Israel so “they could have a chance to harm the Jews.”

Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi prophetic insight that ISIS has a Divine Role in the end-time Messianic Era.

Regardless of their nefarious goals to destroy the State of Israel and drive the Jews into the sea, Rabbi Ben Artzi went on to state that “the Arab world, even avowed enemies like ISIS and Iran, will fail to harm Israel.” As Rabbi Artzi then proclaimed:

Rabbi Ben Artzi – “ISIS has an unexpected place in the divine plan – its role is actually to protect Israel from its enemies. ISIS will not be wiped out. God does not want it wiped out for they are “agents of the Divine.” He then further stated:

Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi – “ISIS creates complications all over the world in certain countries so that they will leave Israel alone. ISIS and the Muslims hate Christians more than they hate Jews.” Even deeper with the combined efforts of the world’s superpowers of America’s forces and the Russian military, ISIS has not been defeated.”

Yet the role of ISIS since its founding in 2014, ISIS has committed dozens of terror attacks in Europe and Turkey and killed hundreds of civilians, apart from its genocidal plan to wipe out all non-Muslims within its territories.

As for Iran, Israel has little to fear — but America does, the respected leader said. Two ISIS terrorists held several people hostage and murdered a priest on July 26, 2016 at a church in France. (YouTube)

“Iran is still working to produce nuclear weapons,” the rabbi said. “America can use the [nuclear] agreement to reveal all the nuclear sites in Iran. But Israel is not in danger from these nuclear weapons. The threat of Iranian nuclear weapons is to America and the rest of the world.”

The reality is that Rabbi Ben Artzi has made similar predictions in the past that have come true in shocking detail. Over a month ago, Breaking Israel News reported a prediction made by the rabbi that black magik will make a comeback in the world. It will be the adepts of “Black Magik” supporters that will focus on the world leaders like US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Less than two weeks later, opponents of President Trump gathered outside Trump Tower in New York City in an attempt to curse the president and his supporters. They sent out a call on social media for others to join in, with detailed instructions on how to perform the black magic.

Another of the rabbi’s predictions that materialized was concerning Russia providing Iran with the advanced S-300 anti-aircraft weapons system in the summer of 2016 when Rabbi Ben Artzi made the following statement backed by the promises of the Divine:

Psalms 37:15 – “Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken:

Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi – “These missiles, which can shoot down practically any plane, will get a virus in their computers, and go crazy.” With additional emphasis, Rabbi Ben Artzi reassured his followers in September. “They (the missiles will blow up inside their bunkers. The launcher will blow up underneath them.”

The Failed Russian S-300 Launching (YouTube video capture)

In the week before December 16, 2016, Breaking Israel News reported again, this time on the failed launching of Russia’s advanced S-300 anti-aircraft weapons system to Iran, again Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi stated that it was not necessary to worry. It was in a vision when Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi received included a biblical inspired vision when he was shown the fate of the missiles.

In December, a video went up on YouTube showing precisely what the rabbi had prophesied: a missile shot out of an S-300 launcher but its rocket failed to ignite. The missile dropped back onto its launcher, exploding inside the bunker.

We must honor the fact that as Jews and Lost 10 Israelites, we also were given access to live in the Holy Land of Israel subject to conditions as outlined by the G-d of Israel.

The condition of any of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, their remaining in “The Land” came with one proviso; “Conquer the Land”. “Drive out the Canaanites (Palestinians)” who were corrupting the land given by the G-d of Israel to Abraham in an epic contract for all ages; guaranteed by the Sovereign power of G-d.

This is the same “Divine Contract” that has been given also to the last Israeli Prime Minister of the State of Israel; Benyamin Netanyahu, which he is mandated by G-d to honor today.

After the Government of Israel comes under the yoke of Metatron, Melekh HaMaschiach’s (King Messiah’s) Divine rule in Jerusalem, only then will the Commonwealth of Israel’s rule extend all over Planet Earth as HaShem’s Solar Rex Capital of our Solar System.

As stated above, this same mandate has been given also to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as stated in the Torah:
Conquer the Ancient Canaanite lands in Galilee, Shomron (Samaria) and Judea and the East Side of the Jordan River in Basham and Assyria.

Return the Palestinians back to the lands of their Ishmaelite forefathers in Jordan on the East Bank of the Jordan River and beyond in the deserts of Arabia.

Support the Jewish people in building towns, industry, re-foresting the Mountains of Central Israel, for it is the Divine Mandate that the Jewish people and the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel must settle, plant fields and orchards, develop spiritual technology, create cities of holiness as our act of “arousal from below”.

Support the Jewish Rabbanim in creating an atmosphere of holiness in Jerusalem and the cities in Israel so that the G-d of Israel can open the “floodgates of heaven and herald in the future, Olam HaBah (World to Come) as we welcome the elevated level of consciousness that is part of the futuristic “Era of the Messiah”.

So role as G-d opens the flood gates of heaven, even we as the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, may step through the interdimensional vortex into the futuristic 4th dimensional world of messianic consciousness.

According to Rabbi Joel David Bakst in “The Jerusalem Stone of Consciousness”: we read:

Joel David Bakst – “Just as in the human body neural pathways are already built into us, likewise the inter-dimensional pathways are already built into us, likewise the inter-dimensional circuits that spread out from Jerusalem throughout the world are built into creation.

This is the esoteric meaning of the verse, “For out of Zion” [another code name for the Foundation Stone called the Makon or “G-d’s Holy Place”, that is covered by the Even Shetiya [Golden Dome of the Rock] “will go forth Torah” referring to the renewed Torah consciousness along the “Teetering Edge of the Messianic Age.”

The future waterways referred to are not only something that will be created totally new. These virtual global “cerebral neural networks” and passage ways already have their channels carved out in the extra-dimensional planes.

The circuits or “tunnels” are already here and we must “get our motor running”, and our pulsating thought waves activated as we find our way into the higher levels of messianic consciousness. As the Talmudic Sages have stated over the centuries. The mystic sages over the centuries have alluded to these hidden meridians when, the Sages enigmatically inform us that:

In the future; the level of kedusha/holiness of the Holy of Holies will spread throughout the entire Temple Mount,

Then the level of kedusha/holiness of Jerusalem will spread throughout all of Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel and then,

The kedusha/holiness of Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel) will spread to the whole world.

Let us link their prophetic understanding as we prepare ourselves for our catastrophic and redemptive future. So what will be the potential effect of the Red Twin Binary Star have upon our Planet Earth? If we evaluate the futuristic Maps of North and Central America, this is what we may see affecting the North America including the United States, Canada and Mexico?

Water will cover the coastline of the Pacific Northwest all the way down from the Alaskan Peninsula, extending for hundreds of miles over a good portion of the States of Washington, Oregon and all the way along the California coastline to the Baja region of Northern Mexico.

The Potential Effect of the Red Binary Star Nibiru upon North and Central America

Those with “eyes that can see and behold” can only ponder the significance of what will happen to Planet Earth when Nibiru’s smaller solar system with its 7 planetoids races by in a close fly-by. If we evaluate the futuristic Maps of North and Central America, this is what we may see:

The volcanos in the Pacific Northwest will begin to erupt, the earthquakes begin to rumble, the tsunamis will race across the oceans to devastate the shorelines of the continents on the other side of the oceans.

The Molten Iron Core of the Earth will continue to energize more and more, so that the plumes of magma erupting from the “magnetic core engine” of Planet Earth become so strong that they raise the beds of the maritime trenches of the Pacific Ocean and push up the mantle of the earth, according to “earth-change” researchers between 200 to 600 feet higher under the waters of the Pacific.

As such the oceanic floor of the Pacific Ocean will rise from below, the oceanic waters above will begin to rise up higher and higher until 80% of Oregon, all of Nevada, 3/4th of Utah and parts of Northern Colorado will be under water.

The entire coastline of California, including San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego all the way down to Baja California will be inundated like the ancient cities of old in past catastrophes.

Parts of ancient maritime continents in the mythology of human peoples, may also rise such as the ancient mythical lands of Lemuria in the Pacific and Atlantis in the Atlantic Oceans.

The Mississippi River will open up engulfing all the lands to its south into the Gulf of Mexico.

The Gulf of Mexico will also be engulfed as water will rise several hundred feet inundating Houston and lands south of the escarpment resting to the south of Dallas and Fort-Worth.

The Islands of the Caribbean Sea will completely go under the water including the Petén in Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, Florida will be inundated and Miami is expected to be immersed as it sinks under the rising waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

The Atlantic maritime coastline will also be submerged east of the Appalachian Mountains. The Atlantic maritime coastline along the eastern coastline of the United States and Washington DC, New York, Philadelphia and Boston will be prone to mega-tsunamis hundreds of feet in height.

As we dwell upon these momentous days in our near future, we have to ponder the words of the prophets of the Hebrew TaNaKh and the Essene disciples of the esteemed Nasi of the Jerusalem Great Sanhedrin, Hillel the Great and his Beit Av Din, Menahem the Essene whose Orthodox disciples fled to Damascus first and later to Qumran.

Let us link their prophetic understanding as we prepare ourselves for our catastrophic and redemptive future:

The Rising Sun and the Twin Binary Red Dwarf Star in our Twin Star Solar System preparing for its Final Apocalypse

Revelation 6:12 – “Then I watched as he broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, the sun turned black as sackcloth worn in mourning, and the full moon became shaken by strong wind. The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.

Then the earth’s kings, the rulers, the generals, the rich and the mighty – indeed, everyone, slave and free – hid himself in caves and among the rocks in the mountains and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of the One sitting on the throne and from the fury of the Lamb! For the Great Day of their fury has come, and who can stand!”

Revelation 16:17- “The seventh one poured out his bowl on the air, and a loud voice came out of the of the Temple from the throne, saying, “It is done!”

There were flashes of lightning, voices and peals of thunder; and there was a massive earthquake, such has never occurred since mankind has been on earth, so violent was the earthquake.

The great city (Washington, DC called Babylon the Great) was split into three parts (East of the Mississippi, West of the Mississippi, and the coastline of the Pacific Northwest and California and Baja California), the cities of the nations fell, …

Every island fled, and no mountains were to be found. And huge seventy pound hailstones fell on people from the sky. But the people cursed G-d for the plague of hail, that it was such a terrible plague.”

Then compare these same cataclysmic times, in our prophetic future, as the Prophet Zechariah wrote these words:

Zechariah 14:2,4,6 – “For I will gather all the nations against Yerushalayim for war…On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, …and the Mountain of Olives will be split in half from east to west; to make a huge valley…

On that day, there will be neither bright light nor thick darkness; and one day, known to Adonai, will be neither day nor night (sun will not go down), although by evening there will be light (sun will rise from west where it went down in the west (Planet Earth just made a partial or complete Pole Shift).”

All of you have wondered how the G-d of Israel will bring all the prophetic events to their fulfillment at the time of the end. Watching the “Finger of the Divine” stirring up nations of the world is far more fascinating than watching a movie drama. The end results will be that all nations will pool all their economic resources at the “gates of Israel” and be prepared to once again to evoke the “Final Solution” this time amongst the remnant of the Jewish peoples that include all the Jews of the Diaspora that have fled to Israel as a land of safety before their life would be thrust through the “gate“ into “the world to come”.

Yet, at that time, a massive influx or possibly mass migrations of the Lost Tribes of Israel will be returning home led by the spirit of HaShem. And during this same time, the G-d of Israel is wooing each one of you, the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, to return and be restored back into brotherhood with the Jews of the House of Judah so that He will send His Messiah to clean house of all the wickedness and corruption on Planet Earth.